Creative Quotes And Sayings

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“True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found”
– Eckhart Tolle

“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”
– EDWARD DE BONO

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
– Edward de Bono

“As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems”
– Edward de Bono

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”
– Edward de Bono

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”
– Edward de Bono

“The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
– Edwin H. Land

“Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
– EDWIN LAND, attributed

“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.”
– Erich Fromm

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
– ERICH FROMM

“I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.”
– Erich Fromm

“Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.”
– ERNEST HOLMES

“It isn’t the incompetent who destroy an organization. The incompetent never get in a position to destroy it. It is those who achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.”
– F. M. Young

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one…. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one—which is really the realm of the artist.”
– Federico Fellini

“I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.
– Francis Ford Coppola

“Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.”
– Frank Goble

“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”
– FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

“Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
– Gail Sheehy

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will”
– George Bernard Shaw

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.”
– George Kneller

“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”
– George Lois

“A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.”
– Gerald G. Jampolsky

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
– Goethe

“Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.”
– Harvey Firestone

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”
– Huxley, Thomas

“The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend.”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer

“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
– Jack London

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