Creativity Quotes

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All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility… — Joline Godfrey
Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are… — Frank Gehry
It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your… — Seth Godin
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something… — Alex Faickney Osborn
Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being. — Silvano Arieti
Time is clay. Go make something. — Barbara Bach
Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist. — Seth Godin
Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express. — Oliver Herring
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation. — Bob Iger
We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us. — Edgar Mitchell
Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination. — Alex Faickney Osborn
It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. — Alex Faickney Osborn
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. — Vida Dutton Scudder
You are not likely to bring out the best in people or nurture their creativity if every time you hear about their problems you instantly… — Nathaniel Branden
A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights. — Kurt Vonnegut
Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy,… — Brian Tracy
There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots. — Warren Buffett
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. — Louise Hay
If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand. — Alan Cohen

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