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Creativity (23)
Aphorisms 21
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The interesting jobs are the ones that you make up.
— Chris Young
No worthy problem is ever solved on the plane of its original conception.
— Albert Einstein
One person's craziness is another person's reality.
— Tim Burton
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth…
— Steve Jobs
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
— Robert Heinlein
I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's.
— William Blake
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
— Gustave Flaubert
Progress means simplifying, not complicating.
— Bruno Munari
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
— Charles Mingus
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
— Jean Genet
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
— Richard Wright
Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
— Allan Gurganus
An adult life is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh…
— Jill Ker Conway
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
— Neil Gaiman
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
— Albert Szent-Györgyi
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the…
— Henry David Thoreau
All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
— C. H. Oakhurst
Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
— Thomas Disch
Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
— Albert Einstein
If at first, the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it.
— Albert Einstein