| These are quotes on creativity from famous people which illustrate many of the |
| principles discussed in our tutorials. You might be able to find some |
| recurrent themes being mentioned. Hope you will find them interesting and |
| inspiring. |
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| > People are wrong who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, nobody |
| > has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. There is not a |
| > famous master whose music I have not studied over and over. |
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| > Mozart |
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| > The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. |
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| > Linus Pauling, physicist |
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| > It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which |
| > bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and |
| > one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. |
| > Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one |
| > at it more than anything. |
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| > Virginia Woolf, writer |
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| > It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be |
| > always right by having no ideas at all. |
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| > Edward de Bono, writer |
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| > Genius was 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. |
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| > Thomas Edison, inventor |
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| > The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. |
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| > Albert Einstein, physicist |
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| > The first draft of anything is shit. |
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| > Ernest Hemingway |
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| > Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a |
| > genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly |
| > present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant |
| > state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it |
| > against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in |
| > a while there will be a hit, and people will say, "How did he do it? He must |
| > be a genius!" |
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| > Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts |
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| > After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job |
| > with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to |
| > establish routines for themselves. The most productive ones get started |
| > early in the morning, when the world is quiet, the phones aren't ringing, |
| > and their minds are rested, alert, and not yet polluted by other people's |
| > words. They might set a goal for themselves -- write fifteen hundred words, |
| > or stay at their desk until noon -- but the real secret is that they do this |
| > every day. In other words, they are disciplined. Over time, as the daily |
| > routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit. |
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| > It's the same for any creative individual, whether it's a painter finding |
| > his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily |
| > to the laboratory. The routine is as much a part of the creative process as |
| > the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available |
| > to everyone. |
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| > Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work |
| > habits. |
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| > Twyla Tharp, choreographer and dancer The Creative Habit |
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| > This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind |
| > resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or |
| > later you will get a reward from your unconscious. |
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| > John Cleese, comedian |
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