Tom Stoppard
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
| Igor Stravinsky
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Basho
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
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An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Source: Courtesy of Breffni Baggot
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Alfred North Whitehead
We think in generalities, but we live in detail
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
| Simone Weil
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
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Doodling is the brooding of the mind.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
| Charles Steinmetz
There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
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Chinese Proverb
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
| Ned Rorem
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
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W. H. Auden
To ask the hard question is simple.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
| J. M. Barrie
I'm not young enough to know everything.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
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William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My business is to create.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
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Ray Bradbury
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
| Jacob Bronowski
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
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Frank Capra
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
| James Carswell
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
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John Cassavetes
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
| G. K. Chesterton
One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
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I Ching
When the way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
| Winston Churchill
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time steady eye
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
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Jules Combarie
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
| Oliver Cromwell
No one travels so high as he who knows not where he is going.
Source: Goldfayl, David
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Charles Dickens
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Source: Gilbert Keith Chesterton in Pickwick Papers
| Annie Dillard
Write as if you are dying
Source: John Wilkinson <100344.12 @ compuserve.com>
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Thomas Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Source: Dictionary of Quotations, Collins Gem
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.
Source: Dictionary of Quotations, Collins Gem
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Albert Einstein
The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them.
Source: Creative Workforce Innovation - Book by Michael Morgan
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The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
Source: gl1@ix.netcom.com (Gene Levinson)
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1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
(Three rules of work)
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
| Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
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Henry Ford
Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right.
Source: roussea@server.uwindsor.ca (Paul Rousseau)
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The more you think, the more time you have
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
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E. M. Forster
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
| Erich Fromm
To take the difficulties, setback and sorrows of life as a challenge which to overcome makes us stronger rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us requires faith and courage
Source: Breffni Baggot (Breffni@neca.com)
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Julius Sextus Frontinus
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Source: Highly regarded engineer in Rome, 1st century A.D. >
| Newt Gingrich
Persistance is the hard work that you do after you are tired of doing the hard work you already did
Source: Breffni Baggot (Breffni@neca.com)
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Goethe
What you can do,or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Source: John Wilkinson <100344.12@compuserve.com>
| J. P. Guilford
To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to grow intellectually
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
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Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
| Ernest Hemingway
You lose it if you talk about it.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
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Heraclitus
One cannot step twice into the same river.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
| Dean William R. Inge
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
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Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
| William James
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
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Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
| Nikos Kazantzakis
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Source: Zorba the Greek (The Film)
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Alfred Korzbyski
The map is not the territory
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
| Dr. Edwin Land
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
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James Russell Lowell
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
| Thomas Macaulay
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
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W. Somerset Maugham
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
| Prince Metternich
The obvious is always least understood
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
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Isaac Newton
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Source: Dictionary of Quotations, Collins Gem
| Cesare Pavese
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
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Pablo Picasso
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
| Pablo Picasso
I do not seek. I find. (Je ne cherche pas; je trouve)
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
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Jonathan Schattke
Neccesity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
Source: wizwom@ripco.com (Jonathan Schattke)
| Arthur Schnabel
The notes I handle no better than many pianists, But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
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George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
| Saul Steinberg
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
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Shunryu Suzuki
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
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Henry Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, Simplify
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
| Alvin Toffler
Change is not merely necessary to life - IT IS LIFE
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
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Unknown
Well begun is half done
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
| Voltaire
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
Source: Harper Book of Quotations, Harper 1993
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The "silly question" is the first intimation of some totally new development.
Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first
Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)
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People can live without air for a few minutes ; without
water for about two weeks ; without food for about two months ; and without a new
thought for years on end.
Source: Kent Ruth
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