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Creative Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
- There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.
- The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is…
- It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and…
- There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.
- Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot…
- The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they…
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
- The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
- To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.
More Creative Quotes
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant
- Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. — Stella Adler
- Be creative. Don`t be worried about what you are doing - one has to do many things - but do everything creatively,… — Rajneesh
- All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear.… — Robert D. Maurer
- On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions… — Adolf Hitler
- Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and… — Lawren Harris
- A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting'… — Nadia Abu El Haj