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    Bill Watterson
    “You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
    What mood is that?
    Last-minute panic.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: procrastination
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    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas
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    Albert Einstein
    “I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: creativity, epiphany, humor, inspiration
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    Derek Landy
    “Doors are for people with no imagination.”
    ― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
    tags: creativity
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    Albert Einstein
    “You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: creativity
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    Jim Jarmusch
    “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

    [MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
    ― Jim Jarmusch
    tags: authenticity, context, creative-process, creativity, imitation, inspiration, originality, postmodernism, rules, sense-of-wonder, sources, transformation
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    Ken Robinson
    “If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
    ― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
    tags: creativity, failure, original
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    Emily Brontë
    “I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind...So don't talk of our seperation again...”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Hugh MacLeod
    “Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.”
    ― Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
    tags: advice, art, crayons, creativity, humor, writing
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    Jack Kerouac
    “If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: art, creativity, literary-criticism, self-expression
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    Marcel Duchamp
    “I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: art, creative-process, creativity
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: creativity, self, self-improvement, words-of-wisdom
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    Arthur Machen
    “I dream in fire but work in clay.”
    ― Arthur Machen
    tags: creativity
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: art, arts, creativity
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    Robert Frost
    “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning, mentoring
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    Plutarch
    “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
    ― Plutarch
    tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
    tags: algebra, education, humor, mathematics
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
    tags: education
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  • #20
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
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    Hafez
    “And still, after all this time,
    The sun never says to the earth,
    "You owe Me."

    Look what happens with
    A love like that,
    It lights the Whole Sky.”
    ― Hafiz
    tags: faith, inspiration
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    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    ― Jack London
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    Vera Nazarian
    “Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?

    Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light.

    There you go . . . That was easy!”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: aim, aim-high, attaining, disk, goal, goals, hand, heaven, heavens, hold, holding, light, moon, night, reach, reaching, sky, star, stars, velvet, window
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  • #27
    “Goals are dreams with deadlines.”
    ― Diana Scharf
    tags: deadlines, dreams, goal, inspirational
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    Stacy London
    “You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.”
    ― Stacy London
    tags: goal
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    Jarod Kintz
    “My goal is to do the most with the least—get the maximum output with the minimum input.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: humor, metaphysics, physics, science
    3509 likes



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