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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
"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
"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
"Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity."	Michael J. Gelb
"Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving."	Michael J. Gelb
"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
"Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management."	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"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
"Creativity comes from zeal to do something, generally it is to make some money."	B. J. Gupta
"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
"If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative."	H. Heimlich
"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
"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes."	Thomas W. Higginson
"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
"A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains it original dimension."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"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
"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism."	William Ralph Inge
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."	Franklin P. Jones
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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
William Ralph Inge