“Many people find creativity to be their most certain way to happiness.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is ultimately to be at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” -Abraham H. Maslow (Abraham Harold Maslow (1908 - 1970))
“I was created to create.” -Author Unknown
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Bernard: What are you making?
Bernice: I’ll know when it’s done!
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926 - 2016): “Magical Child” (1977)
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“One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination, that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.” -Richard Wagner (Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883))
“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 (1856 - 1950)
“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers, but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942))
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“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger (1900 - 1944))
“Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.” -Alex F. Osborn (Alex Faickney Osborn (1888 - 1966))
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Josh: Why are shovels regarded as the most innovative invention of all time?
Joseph: Because they are truly ground-breaking.
“It’s not about thinking outside the box. It’s about realizing there is no box.” -Jari Askins
“Creativity takes courage.” -Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
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“Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.” -Theodor Reik (1888 - 1969)
“To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.” -Georgia O’Keeffe (Georgia Totto O’Keeffe (1887 - 1986))
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“It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are a minority of one.” -E. Paul Torrance (Ellis Paul Torrance (1915 - 2003))
“When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.” -Rollo May (1909 - 1994)
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“Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.” -Edward de Bono (born 1933)
“A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824): as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
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“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.” -Alfred Whitney Griswold: address (9 June 1957) at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
“If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” -Raymond Inmon (Raymond Leon Inmon (1920 - 1999))
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“All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you’ve thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.” -Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey (1932 - 2012))
“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” -William Plomer
“Ideas are funny things. They don’t work unless you do.” -Author Unknown
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“Every important new idea, when it first appears, is ridiculed.” -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.” -David M. Ogilvy (David Mackenzie Ogilvy (1911 - 1999))
“Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don’t merely dream - but create!” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)
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“Creative people exhibit a continuous discontent with uniformity.” -Glenn Van Ekeren
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“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is ultimately to be at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” -Abraham H. Maslow (Abraham Harold Maslow (1908 - 1970))
“I was created to create.” -Author Unknown
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Bernard: What are you making?
Bernice: I’ll know when it’s done!
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926 - 2016): “Magical Child” (1977)
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“One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination, that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.” -Richard Wagner (Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883))
“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 (1856 - 1950)
“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers, but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942))
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“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger (1900 - 1944))
“Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.” -Alex F. Osborn (Alex Faickney Osborn (1888 - 1966))
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Josh: Why are shovels regarded as the most innovative invention of all time?
Joseph: Because they are truly ground-breaking.
“It’s not about thinking outside the box. It’s about realizing there is no box.” -Jari Askins
“Creativity takes courage.” -Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
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“Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.” -Theodor Reik (1888 - 1969)
“To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.” -Georgia O’Keeffe (Georgia Totto O’Keeffe (1887 - 1986))
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“It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are a minority of one.” -E. Paul Torrance (Ellis Paul Torrance (1915 - 2003))
“When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.” -Rollo May (1909 - 1994)
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“Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.” -Edward de Bono (born 1933)
“A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824): as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
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“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.” -Alfred Whitney Griswold: address (9 June 1957) at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
“If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” -Raymond Inmon (Raymond Leon Inmon (1920 - 1999))
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“All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you’ve thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.” -Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey (1932 - 2012))
“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” -William Plomer
“Ideas are funny things. They don’t work unless you do.” -Author Unknown
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“Every important new idea, when it first appears, is ridiculed.” -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.” -David M. Ogilvy (David Mackenzie Ogilvy (1911 - 1999))
“Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don’t merely dream - but create!” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)
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“Creative people exhibit a continuous discontent with uniformity.” -Glenn Van Ekeren
Overheard: I am creative. You can’t expect me to be neat, too!
Put Something In
Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a looney-gooney dance
’Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain’t been there before.
by Shel Silverstein (Sheldon Allan ‘Shel’ Silverstein (1930 - 1999))
“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.” -Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956): as quoted in the obituary of music-hall comic Dan Leno, published in the “Saturday Review” (5 November 1904)
“Creative thinking is no substitute for hard work.” -Author Unknown
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“Listen to everyone, because good ideas can come from everywhere.” -Author Unknown
“Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.” -Corita Kent (Mary Corita ‘Corita’ Kent (born Frances Elizabeth Kent (1918 - 1986)))
“There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” -Seth Godin (born 1960)
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“Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing.” -Edward de Bono (born 1933)
“Form follows function.” -Louis Henri Sullivan (1856 - 1924)
“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” -Linus Pauling (Linus Carl Pauling (1901 - 1994))
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
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“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” -attributed to Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” -Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent. I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965))
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“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” -Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
Overheard: We’re having creative differences. I’m creative; you’re different.
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world.” -Barbara Marx Hubbard
“All men are not creative equally.” -John Solie
“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.” -Lou Dorfsman (Louis ‘Lou’ Dorfsman (1918 - 2008))
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“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.” -Michael Porter
“Encouraged, we recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the creator.” -Edith Schaeffer (Edith Rachel Merritt Schaeffer, also known as Mei Fuh (1914 - 2013)): “The Hidden Art of Homemaking: Creative Ideas for Enriching Everyday Life” (1972)
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“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” -Mary Lou Cook (1918 - 2013)
“Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.” -Brian Aldiss (Brian Wilson Aldiss (1925 - 2017))
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“It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.” -Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776 - 1831)
“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.” -John W. Gardner (John William Gardner (1912 - 2002))
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” -Edwin Land (Edwin Herbert Land (1909 - 1991)): as quoted in “A Genius and His Magic Camera,” published in “LIFE” magazine (27 October 1972); also in Mark Olshaker: “The Instant Image: Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience” (1978), page 65
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“Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
“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 (born 1933)
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“Concern over criticism clogs creativity.” -Duane Alan Hahn
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
“Creativity means believing you have greatness.” -Wayne Dyer (Wayne Walter Dyer (born 1940))
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“Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity and imagination.” -Benny Goodman
“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” -Alfred Nobel
“Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea.” -Charles Thompson
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“The life of the creative man is lead, directed, and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.” -Saul Steinberg (1914 - 1999)
“You wouldn’t want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn’t mean you can’t take it seriously as well.” -Charles de Lint (born 1951)
“Creativity is imagining possibilities and making them real.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly (born 1952) at www.JoyOfQuotes.com
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“Creativity is seeing something that doesn’t exist already.” -Author Unknown
“Make stuff, be happy.” -Author Unknown
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“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.” -Linus Pauling (Linus Carl Pauling (1901 - 1994))
“Creativity starts with a process of imagining, exploring, and expressing. We can all do it. But it’s a risk; it’s a leap, and needs an environment free of evaluation to thrive.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly (born 1952) at www.JoyOfQuotes.com
“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)
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We are MFOL! . . . keep thinking creatively . . . then build your creation . . .
Put Something In
Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a looney-gooney dance
’Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain’t been there before.
by Shel Silverstein (Sheldon Allan ‘Shel’ Silverstein (1930 - 1999))
“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.” -Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956): as quoted in the obituary of music-hall comic Dan Leno, published in the “Saturday Review” (5 November 1904)
“Creative thinking is no substitute for hard work.” -Author Unknown
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“Listen to everyone, because good ideas can come from everywhere.” -Author Unknown
“Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.” -Corita Kent (Mary Corita ‘Corita’ Kent (born Frances Elizabeth Kent (1918 - 1986)))
“There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” -Seth Godin (born 1960)
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“Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing.” -Edward de Bono (born 1933)
“Form follows function.” -Louis Henri Sullivan (1856 - 1924)
“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” -Linus Pauling (Linus Carl Pauling (1901 - 1994))
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
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“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” -attributed to Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” -Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent. I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965))
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“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” -Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
Overheard: We’re having creative differences. I’m creative; you’re different.
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world.” -Barbara Marx Hubbard
“All men are not creative equally.” -John Solie
“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.” -Lou Dorfsman (Louis ‘Lou’ Dorfsman (1918 - 2008))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Loneliness and Solitude” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.” -Michael Porter
“Encouraged, we recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the creator.” -Edith Schaeffer (Edith Rachel Merritt Schaeffer, also known as Mei Fuh (1914 - 2013)): “The Hidden Art of Homemaking: Creative Ideas for Enriching Everyday Life” (1972)
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“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” -Mary Lou Cook (1918 - 2013)
“Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.” -Brian Aldiss (Brian Wilson Aldiss (1925 - 2017))
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“It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.” -Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776 - 1831)
“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.” -John W. Gardner (John William Gardner (1912 - 2002))
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” -Edwin Land (Edwin Herbert Land (1909 - 1991)): as quoted in “A Genius and His Magic Camera,” published in “LIFE” magazine (27 October 1972); also in Mark Olshaker: “The Instant Image: Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience” (1978), page 65
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“Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
“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 (born 1933)
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“Concern over criticism clogs creativity.” -Duane Alan Hahn
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
“Creativity means believing you have greatness.” -Wayne Dyer (Wayne Walter Dyer (born 1940))
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“Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity and imagination.” -Benny Goodman
“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” -Alfred Nobel
“Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea.” -Charles Thompson
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Numbers and Counting” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“The life of the creative man is lead, directed, and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.” -Saul Steinberg (1914 - 1999)
“You wouldn’t want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn’t mean you can’t take it seriously as well.” -Charles de Lint (born 1951)
“Creativity is imagining possibilities and making them real.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly (born 1952) at www.JoyOfQuotes.com
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“Creativity is seeing something that doesn’t exist already.” -Author Unknown
“Make stuff, be happy.” -Author Unknown
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“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.” -Linus Pauling (Linus Carl Pauling (1901 - 1994))
“Creativity starts with a process of imagining, exploring, and expressing. We can all do it. But it’s a risk; it’s a leap, and needs an environment free of evaluation to thrive.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly (born 1952) at www.JoyOfQuotes.com
“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)
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