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"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."	Frank Capra
"A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."	Sir Walter Besant
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains it original dimension."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"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
"A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."	Smiley Blanton
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."	Josh Billings
"Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."	John Stuart Mill
"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."	Erich Fromm
"Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity."	Michael J. Gelb
"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
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."	Anna Freud
"Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven."	I Ching
"Creativity comes from zeal to do something, generally it is to make some money."	B. J. Gupta
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."	Edward de Bono
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."	Scott Adams
"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
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."	Mary Lou Cook
"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."	Edwin H. Land
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Carl Gustav Jung	Charles Mingu	Charlotte Bronte
Clive Staples Lewis	Cynthia Heimel	Daisaku Ikeda
Daniel Day Lewis	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	Denis Diderot
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger	Edward de Bono
Edwin H. Land	Erich Fromm	Franklin P. Jones
Frank Capra	Frank Kingdon	Fritjof Capra
Henry Louis Mencken	Herman Melville	H. Heimlich
I Ching	Jean Caldwell	Joel H. Hildebrand
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Dewey	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Stuart Mill	John W(illiam) Gardner	Josh Billings
Julia Margaret Cameron	Lee C. Bollinger	Lou Dorfsman
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Lou Cook	Michael J. Gelb
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Miles Dewey Davis	M. I. Abramowitz
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	Ray Douglas Bradbury
Robert Henri	R. I. Fitzhenry	Scott Adams
Sir Walter Besant	Smiley Blanton	Sri da Avabhas
Stephen Neill	Sybil Marshall	Thomas Carlyle
Thomas W. Higginson	Van Wyck Brooks	Warren G. Bennis
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