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Quotations dealing with the Forces that drive our Creativity, quotes of imagination, ideas, curiosity and drive.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
-- Ovid
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Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
-— Kermit the Frog
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-- Oscar Wilde
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
-- Dr Edwin Land
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
-- M. C. Escher
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'Tis better to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction live in doubtful joy.
-- Lady Macbeth
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
-- Samuel Johnson
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
-- Albert Einstein
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
-- Plutarch
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One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.
-- Niyi Osundare
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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
-- Albert Einstein
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Live dangerously and you live right.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
-- David H. Lawrence
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I can create what I can imagine.
-- Charlene Kingston
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The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein
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I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Chance is always powerful.
-- Ovid
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When we put things off until some future — probably mythical — Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.
-— Peter McWilliams
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
-- Joseph Joubert
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Learning without thought is labor lost.
-- Confucius
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The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.
-- Linus Pauling
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A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.
-- Tom Wujec
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Creative activity increases creative ability.
-- Harry Lorayne
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I tell you: one must have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in you.
-- Freidrich Nietzsche
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Ah good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
-- Pablo Picasso
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You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
-- George Bernard Shaw
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
-- Martha Graham
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Trust that still, small voice that says, "This might work and I'll try it."
-- Diane Mariechild
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
-- Colette
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
-- Jean-jacques Rousseau
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Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun
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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
-- Juan Ramòn Jimènez
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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
-- Earl Riney
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
-- Michelangelo
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
-- Salvador Dali
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein
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Imagination is the eye of the soul
-- Joubert
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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
-- Henry Moore
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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.
-- Upanishads
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
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If you can imagine it you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
-- William Arthur Ward
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Solitude is the furnace of transformation.
-- Henri Nouwen
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Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.
-- James D. Finley
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The impossible is often the untried.
-- Jim Goodwin
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What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does.
-- Pablo Picasso
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