Creative Quotes
3627 quotes by 2327 authors
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Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.
— Merlin Mann
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Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.
— Merlin Mann
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It’s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the…
— Evanna Lynch
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Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we…
— Stephen Harrigan
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Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into…
— Steven James
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I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.
— Julie Powell
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Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue…
— Max McKeown
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The way you reach that awareness is through an inner journey that brings about an emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation. A deep inner shift in…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.
— Tom Kelley
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It turns out that creativity isn’t some rare gift to be enjoyed by the lucky few—it’s a natural part of human thinking and behavior. In…
— Tom Kelley
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The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.
— Tom Kelley
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My dad, who was creative director in the '60s, always wore black jeans with black desert boots; he thought he was cool. He told me…
— Andy Spade
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My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day…
— Stephanie Klein
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The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say things that other people like in the…
— Scott Berkun
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Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or…
— Scott Berkun
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The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy…
— John H. Lienhard
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From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the…
— Pierre-Paul Grasse
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When we heal ourselves, others are healed. When we nurture our dreams, we give birth to the dreams of humankind. When we walk as loving…
— Jamie Sams
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Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set…
— Eric G. Wilson
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Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling…
— Victor Papanek
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