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Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it. ↗

— Dee Hock

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Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes. ↗

— Ross Perot

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Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else. A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home. It could not be combined; not in this day and age. In this insane world where God was second to income and goodness to wealth. (“Mad House”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. ↗

— Sophia Loren

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We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

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There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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Inside" Children Inside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. With regard to our creative dreams, these inside children can prevent us from living them by "acting out" in order to try to get our attention. Your inner 5-year-old is not going to patiently wait as you learn intricate metalworking techniques or study impressionist painting. Yet, your inner 10-year-old may be perfectly suited to learn and observe new skills. What's really needed is parenting of these inside children so that we bring them to age-appropriate activities. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

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An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. ↗

— Irving Stone

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Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, “honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.” Good to remember… ↗

— Elif Shafak

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Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. ↗

— Hugh MacLeod

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