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Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged...

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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat...

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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the eman...

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When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues ...

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George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something co...

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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to d...

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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to th...

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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate im...

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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

I like Ben Stein. I think he's funny, creative, and an insightful commentator on a host of issues.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea...

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People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It...

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can als...

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If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was...

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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and ...

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Denis DiderotThoughts on the Interpretation of Nature and Other Philosophical Works

I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercis...

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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...

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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...

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Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on...

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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're enc...

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As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done

I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is...

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She had turned thought and feeling into life, into reality, into creation. They speak of the _creati...

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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough fo...

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There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth...

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Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, ...

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I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I wer...

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Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studie...

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Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studie...

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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dy...

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For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me be...

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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write...

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Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opini...

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The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be...

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Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to b...

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Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more cre...

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Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial valu...

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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from....

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Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativi...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, ...

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We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of cre...

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Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spe...

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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a cr...

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Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, smal...

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Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a w...

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Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our cre...

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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where...

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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, sayin...

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy...

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards day...

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Vision is the true creative rhythm.

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might d...

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So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to t...

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Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the firs...

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I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at ...

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I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at ...

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I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at ...

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I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at ...

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We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's ...

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As a British fashion designer, it is an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be creative direc...

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When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy repl...

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The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to ...

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I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically a...

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The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male cou...

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The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

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If you took the world away and just left the elctricity, it would look like the most exquisite filig...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe...

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The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatic...

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All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thi...

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If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a cr...

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I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagi...

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It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of...

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All political movements are basically anti-creative — since a political movement is a form of war. “...

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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a cert...

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DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive...

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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, a...

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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creativ...

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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.