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"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 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light." John W(illiam) Gardner 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept." John W(illiam) Gardner 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity." Michael J. Gelb 4.1429 average rating Rate this Quote
"Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving." Michael J. Gelb 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management." Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 3.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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
"Creativity comes from zeal to do something, generally it is to make some money." B. J. Gupta 5.0000 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
"If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative." H. Heimlich 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do." Robert Henri Rate this Quote
"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes." Thomas W. Higginson Rate this Quote
"The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own." Joel H. Hildebrand 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains it original dimension." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 5.0000 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
"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism." William Ralph Inge 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Originality is the art of concealing your source." Franklin P. Jones 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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Abraham Maslow Albert Einstein Andrea Canaan
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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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