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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Van Wyck Brooks

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The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.

Jean Caldwell

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The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things.

I Ching

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

I Ching

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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese

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Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Robertson Davies

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My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

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Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Michael J. Gelb

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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.

A. Whitney Griswold

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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

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If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.

H. Heimlich

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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.

Carl Gustav Jung

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Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

Frank Kingdon

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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Clare Booth Luce

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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Dr. Karl Menninger

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I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

Louise Nevelson

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Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery.

S. O'Brien

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The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Jean Piaget

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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.

Ruth Ross

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The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Alvin Toffler

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