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Quotes on Creativity and Originality
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Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple. Charles Mingus The artist who can forget his past creations may create greater and greater things. The joy is in the doing, not in the holding fast to that which is done. Oh, the magic of letting go! It is the magic of the gods. The Beautiful Being from To Those About to Die: Letters from a Living Dead Man Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. Edward De Bono Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver wendell Holms People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. R. Buckminster Fuller If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches—and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of life's great pleasures is letting go of a previously cherished idea. Then you're free to look for new ones. What part of your idea are you in love with? What would happen if you kissed it goodbye? Roger von Oech 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 requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Sir Cecil Beaton Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. Mary Lou Cook The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin H. Land Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. Pablo Picasso Concern over criticism clogs creativity. Duane Alan Hahn A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. Gerald G. Jampolsky Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur Koestler When all think alike, then no one is thinking. Walter Lippman Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open. Thomas R. Dewar He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries. Unknown They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. Antonio Porchia Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. Jiddu Krishnamurti Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. Edwin H. Land I invent nothing, I rediscover. Auguste Rodin Nothing is new except arrangement. William J. Durant What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. Dean William R. Inge Begin with another's to end with your own. Baltasar Gracian Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism. Voltaire To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. Lichtenberg The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. Alan Ashley-Pitt The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Arthur Koestler Originality is a marshmallow chick dry humping a wet pickle. Duane Alan Hahn
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Morning Dew (Bad Lip Reading) The Dreaming (Kate Bush) Beef Jerky (Cibo Matto) Hourglass (Squeeze) Kinder Surprise (weird commercial) The Powerful Link Between Creativity and Play What is Creativity? (Brian Tracy) I'm on a Horse (Old Spice) Man Your Man Could Smell Like (Behind Scenes) The Logical Song (Supertramp) One Voice (Barry Manilow) |
Pages in this Section
Creativity & Originality
Creativity Links
10 Steps for Boosting Creativity
Creativity Tools (all kinds of techniques)
Stand-Up Comedy Links
Books Worth Reading
9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination
A Whack on the Side of the Head
How You Can Be More Creative
A Kick in the Seat of the Pants
Expect the Unexpected or You Won't Find It
A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus
Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain
(in five minutes or less)
Shake Up Your Business, Shake Up Your Life
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