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Our current
obsession with creativity is the result of our continued
striving for immortality in an era when most people no
longer believe in an after-life.
-- Arianna Stassinopoulos
1950-, Greek Author
I do my best
work when I am in pain and turmoil.
-- Sting
1951-, British-born American
Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Actor
Creative
power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes
a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated
substance can flow and take the desired form.
-- Thomas Troward
Man was made
at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist,
Writer
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I have asked a
lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The
price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one
little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my
seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it
was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you
now.
-- Source Unknown
One measure of
how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your
circumstances and environment. How flexible are you?
Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation,
condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around
rocks, fills containers, etc.
-- Source Unknown
The creative
process involves getting input, making a recommendation,
getting critical review, getting more input, improving the
recommendation, getting more critical review... again and
again and again.
-- Source Unknown
Serious people
have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
-- Paul Valery
1871-1945, French Poet,
Essayist
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