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| Allting har man tänkt på förut. Svårigheten är att tänka på det en gång till. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Att skapa utan att sprida det vidare är lika meningslöst som att tala utan att någon hör. | Anne Grete Preus (1957-) |
| För mig var demoscenen så jävla nice: Ingen var där för att vara tuff gentemot någon annan. Alla var förenade i någon form av nördskap, och ett brinnande gemensamt intresse för datorer. Det är sjukt att kunna sitta och glamorisera den scenen idag, men det var jävligt bra för mig att vara en del av den, om inte annat så för att den hindrade en från att hålla på med en massa skit. | Axel Axwell Hedfors |
| Jag tror på skaparen, därför kan jag skapa | Keith Jarrett |
| Kreativitet är upfinna, experimentera, växa, ta risker, bryta regler, göra misstag och ha roligt. | Mary Lou Cook |
| Nyckeln till kreativitet är förmågan att dölja sin källor | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Om målet med samhällsutvecklingen skulle vara att vi alla skulle arbeta maximalt vore vi sinnessjuka. Målet är att frigöra människan till att skapa maximalt. Dansa. Måla. Sjunga. Ja, vad ni vill. Frihet. | Ernst Wigforss |
| Skapandets konst är äldre än dödandets konst. | Edward Koch (1924-) |
| Tänk inte! Tanken är kreativitetens fiende. Den är självupptagen, och självupptagenhet är inte bra. Du kan inte pröva att göra saker, du måste helt enkelt göra dem. | Ray Bradbury (1920-) |
| Varje skaparakt är först och främst ödeläggelse. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Så siger jeg til alle: Hold øjne og øren åbne. Vær kreative. Vis opfindsomhed og før forslag. | Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller |
| Den menneskelige hjerne opnår aldrig igen sin oprindelige størrelse, når den først er blevet udvidet af en ny idé. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Alt hvad du kan forestille dig er virkeligt | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Der findes malere, der forvandler solen til en gul klat, men der findes andre, som takket være deres kunst og forstand, forvandler en gul klat til solen. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Enhver kreativ handling er først og fremmest en destruktiv handling | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Hvert barn er en kunstner. Problemet er, hvorledes forbliver man kunstner, efter at man er blevet voksen | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life | Barthold Georg Niebuhr |
| Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? | Bernice Fitz-Gibbon |
| Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. | Charles Mingus (1922-1979) |
| Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. | Charles Mingus (1922-1979) |
| 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. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening | Daisaku Ikeda (1928-) |
| Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. | Dr. Rollo May |
| Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. | Edward de Bono |
| We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. | Edward de Bono |
| Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. | Edwin H. Land |
| Creativity not committed to public purpose is merely therapy or ego satisfaction. | Ernest A. Jones |
| The opposite of creativity is cynicism | Esa Saarinen |
| The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. | Frank Barron |
| A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| Handled creatively, getting fired allows an executive to actually experience a sense of relief that he never wanted the job he has lost. | Frank P. Louchheim |
| Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties | Gail Sheehy (1937-) |
| The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing. | Garson Kanin (1912-1999) |
| Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything. | George Lois |
| Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. | Geri Weitzman |
| It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering. | Gordon Mackenzie (1906-) |
| I don't think anybody in our business is creative. What we do is copy something better than the next person. | Henry Siegel |
| Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. | James D. Finley |
| In lieu of creativity, there is an undue emphasis on sexuality | Jay Christian Emerte |
| The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers | Jean Piaget (1896-1980) |
| Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest. | Jef I. Richards |
| The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. | Joel Hildebrand |
| Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife | Jonathan Schattke |
| Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way. | Joseph Badaracco |
| For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. | Joyce Cary (1888-1957) |
| Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. | Julia Cameron |
| I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. | Katharine Butler Hathaway |
| To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. | Lawrence Clark Powell |
| The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields. | Matthew Tobriner |
| Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. | Norman Podhoretz (1930-) |
| Creativity is to think more efficiently | Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960) |
| Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. | R. I. Fitzhenry |
| Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. | Ray Bradbury (1920-) |
| Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to | Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
| Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done | Rudolf Flesch |
| Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. | Stephen Jay Gould (1941-) |
| Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. | Thomas Disch |
| Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. | Tina Turner (1939-) |
| For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications. | William N. Lipscomb, Jr. |
| Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. | William Plomer (1903-1973) |
| Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five | Arthur Koestler (1905-1938) |
| The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. | Ben Okri (1959-) |
| Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible. | Ben Okri (1959-) |
| 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 (1928-) |
| Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm | Earl Nightingale |
| Creativity is discontent translated into arts | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. | Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) |
| Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. | John Updike (1932-) |
| Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. | Julia Cameron |
| I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within. | Louise Nevelson (1900-1988) |
| The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God | Mary Daly |
| Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it | Mason Cooley |
| The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. | Nadine Gordimer (1923-) |
| Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. | R. D. Laing (1927-1989) |
| The more you reason the less you create | Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) |
| Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. | Rita Mae Brown (1944-) |
| Talent works, genius creates. | Robert A. Schumann (1810-1856) |
| There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love | Sophia Loren (1934-) |
| There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. | Tori Amos (1963-) |
| There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. | Warren G. Bennis |
| Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress | Wilfred Peterson |
| Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten. | William Bernbach (1911-1982) |
| Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent. | William Bernbach (1911-1982) |
| Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. | Stephen Jay Gould (1941-) |
| Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. | Tina Turner (1939-) |
| Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. | Scott Adams (1957-) |
| Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. | Mary Lou Cook |
| Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything. | George Lois |
| The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. | Thomas Disch |
| Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. | William Plomer (1903-1973) |
| Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. | Charles Mingus (1922-1979) |
| Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. | Frank Barron |
| Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way. | Joseph Badaracco |
| Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. | Ray Bradbury (1920-) |
| The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers | Jean Piaget (1896-1980) |
| America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. | R. I. Fitzhenry |
| Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. | Edward de Bono |
| The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. | Arthur Koestler (1905-1938) |
| But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself. | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| 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. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening | Daisaku Ikeda (1928-) |
| Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. | Dee Hock |
| I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. | Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) |
| No great thing is created suddenly. | Epictetus (55-135) |
| Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you. | Frank Barron |
| Everyday in every way I create my own reality.So what is that I choose to create today? | Gabriella Goddard (1966-) |
| It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering. | Gordon Mackenzie (1906-) |
| There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) |
| Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B. | James Yorke |
| Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence | Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) |
| Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest. | Jef I. Richards |
| Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. | John Updike (1932-) |
| Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. | John Updike (1932-) |
| The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. | José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) |
| I never feel age ... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. | Louise Nevelson (1900-1988) |
| Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Taste is the enemy of creativeness | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.To him...a touch is a blow,a sound is a noise,a misfortune is a tragedy,a joy is an ecstasy,a friend is a lover,a lover is a god,and failure is death.Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. | Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) |
| Creativity is to think more efficiently | Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960) |
| The cat and the love you give away always come back to you | Proverb |
| Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. | R. D. Laing (1927-1989) |
| Our creation is the modification of relationship. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| There is then creative reading as well as creative writing | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to | Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
| There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love | Sophia Loren (1934-) |
| Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. | Stephen Jay Gould (1941-) |
| All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe. | Stephen King (1947-) |
| Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. | Steve Jobs (1955-2011) |
| There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. | Tori Amos (1963-) |
| To create a little flower is the labour of ages. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing. | William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) |
| Der alt er ryddig skjer sjelden mye kreativt. | Erik Lerdahl |