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Imagination
is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert
Einstein *
The
intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We
have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
-- Albert Einstein "Problems
cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."
-- Albert
Einstein | 
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| The
arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
-- Scilla Elworthy |
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| There
are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
~
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"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
Creativity
requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-- Erich Fromm
"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
| People should
think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional
way of doing things.
-- R. Buckminster
Fuller When
I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to
solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
--
R. Buckminster
Fuller |  |
When
Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for
the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some
day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things
we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
-- John
W. Gardner (1912 - )
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell
it occupied.
-- Arnold Glascow
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| "In
a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking
becomes more important — and often more profitable — than to be civil or creative
or truly original.’’
~ Al
Gore |
Concern
over criticism clogs creativity.
-- Duane Alan Hahn
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"The arts have
always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a
way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
-- Herbie
Hancock Creativity
and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for
the sake of music.
-- Herbie
Hancock |
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If
we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very
important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people,
he's really needed.
-- Vaclav
Havel |  |
The
problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to
get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean
out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
-- Dee Hock
Man's
mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
An
invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
--
Victor Hugo
There
is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose
time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
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"The power of
art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings."
-- Daisaku
Ikeda |
