Creativity, like most interesting things, resists easy generalizations.
– Jonah Lehrer
Tag: creativity
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Creativity is like any other human talent – it takes an enormous amount of effort to develop.
– Jonah Lehrer
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I think one must trust the writing process. Understand that creativity requires nonlinearity and unique associative combinations. Creative people do a lot of trial and error and rarely know where they are going exactly until they get there.
– Scott Barry Kaufman
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Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
– William Plomer
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
– Bill Moyers
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Cleverness gets in the way of creativity. Cleverness is often the easy way, the expected in your work, and I try very hard not to take the easy way out.
– Lucille Clifton
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A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
– David Lynch
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
– Maya Angelou
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
– Rita Mae Brown
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If you do creative work, there’s a sense that inspiration is this fairy dust that gets dropped on you, when in fact you can just manufacture inspiration through sheer brute force. You can simply produce enough material that the thing will arrive that seems inspired.
– Ira Glass