Creative Quotes

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Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. — John Dewey
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. — Marshall McLuhan
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart… — Mahatma Gandhi
All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's… — William S. Burroughs
Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should… — Susan Sarandon
As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. — Erma Bombeck
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with… — Ray Manzarek
As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer… — Edward de Bono
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an… — W. Somerset Maugham
The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have… — Hans Zimmer
Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being. — Carl Jung
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
Soul-the spiritual principle, the creative spark of God-cannot work if you panic. Anxiety shuts down the creative centers. When you can't think, whatever you try… — Harold Klemp
You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty. — Rajneesh
Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. — Laozi
Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make. — Kent Nerburn
You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different… — Jim Rohn
Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to… — Brenda Ueland

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