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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 3.1667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear." Abraham Maslow 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"E=mc² (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by L/c²." Albert Einstein 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist." Albert Einstein 4.7778 average rating Rate this Quote
"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." Albert Einstein 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Albert Einstein 4.9600 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive." Albert Einstein 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." Albert Einstein 4.8846 average rating Rate this Quote
"It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another: When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing." Andrea Canaan Rate this Quote
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud 4.1667 average rating Rate this Quote
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." Arthur Koestler 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Creativity comes from zeal to do something, generally it is to make some money." B. J. Gupta 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself." Bernard Iddings Bell 3.9286 average rating Rate this Quote
"Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?" Bernice Fitz-Gibbon 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." Charles Mingu 4.7647 average rating Rate this Quote
"The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself." Charlotte Bronte 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." Clive Staples Lewis 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 4.6923 average rating Rate this Quote
"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe." Daisaku Ikeda 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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