Quotes with creative

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  • Salvador Dali It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Ajay Naidu It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Barry Sternlicht It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barack Obama It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barry Mann It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Harriet Martineau Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Avi Arad Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Robertson Davies Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Bob Balaban My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Assata Shakur My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bre Pettis My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Ansel Adams No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • W. H. Auden Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Anita Roddick Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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