#creativity

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. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years. ↗

— Aberjhani

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Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office. ↗

— Jay Inslee

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ↗

— Rumi

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Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

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Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity. ↗

— Jean Houston

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I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine. ↗

— Tony Hsieh

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Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

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