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Creativity I

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
English proverb
We must either find a way or make one.
Hannibal
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Eva Le Gallienne
A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
Anonymous
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
James Carswell
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Ursula K. Le Guin
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
W. Somerset Maugham
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
Jonathan Schattke
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Saul Steinberg
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.
Dr. Robert Anthony
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
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth--century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
Carl Ally, Ally & Gargano Advertising Agency
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Edward Albee
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.
S. I. Hayakawa
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
Carl Jung

8/6/08

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