Creativity Quotes

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A language Older Than Words — Derrick Jensen
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome"… — Tom Peters
If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your… — Julia Cameron
The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live. — Joseph Curiale
"A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand… — Joseph Curiale
The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that… — Wayne Coyne
Great thinkers think inductively, that is, they create solution and then seek out the problems that solution might solve; most companies think deductively, that is,… — Joey Reiman
The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their real estate, and their net… — Joey Reiman
Every creative genius has been a channel. Every masterwork has been created through the channeling process. Great works are not created by the personality alone.… — Shakti Gawain
But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is… — Ken Wilber
So it is a good idea to start simple, I think, and be very careful. There is a spiritual opening in the Kosmos. Let us… — Ken Wilber
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. — Van Wyck Brooks
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. — Richard Stallman
Good taste is the enemy of creativity. — Pablo Picasso
Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. — John W. Gardner
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I… — Zhuangzi
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works… — Charlotte Bronte
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . .… — Carl Jung

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