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List of creativity quotes
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This is a list of creativity quotes
A leader and a follower
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
A yellow spotThere are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
Pablo Picasso
Defiance
Good work habitsCreativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
Twyla Tharp
It freed meI didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Steve Jobs
It is just connecting thingsCreativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs
Like an artistLearn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
Like rabbitsIdeas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
Loved before it existsThe whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens
Moving forwardWe keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney
Not just for artistsCreativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
Twyla Tharp
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The creative powerOdd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf
What could beOthers have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso
What is creativity?Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
Umberto Eco
You may make mistakesSometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
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