A good book praises itself.
German (on books and writers)
A good spectator also creates.
Swiss (on art and creativity)
A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s claw.
English (on books and writers)
A library is a repository of medicine for the mind.
Greek (on books and writers)
A picture is a poem without words.
Latin (on art and creativity)
A picture’s worth a thousand words.
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A thousand artisans, a thousand plans.
Chinese (on art and creativity)
All the world’s a stage.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often.
Korean (on art and creativity)
Even the best writer has to erase.
Spanish (on books and writers)
Every age has its book.
Arabic (on books and writers)
Every picture tells a story.
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Great ideas are the fuel of progress.
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Great minds think alike.
“Punch” (c.1922)
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese (on books and writers)
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780-1832)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar (c.102-44 BC))
Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Quality, not quantity.
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The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart.
Moroccan (on books and writers)
Creativity 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
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Edward de Bono
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Edward de
Bono
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
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas
Donatella Versace
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
When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.
Linda Naiman
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of
your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda
The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be
worthless. The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes
in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.
Frank Goble
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century
mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form
a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.
Carl Ally
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
Creativity is seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a
playmate with God.
Michele Shea
The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn’t need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right
ideas
Abe Tannenbaum
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
It seems to be one of the paradoxes of creativity that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of
others.
George Kneller
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pierce
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Anthony Jay
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Gail Sheehy
Human life is inherently creative. It’s why we all have different resumes. It’s why human culture is so interesting and diverse and
dynamic.
Ken Robinson
For creativity to flourish [requires] the embrace of loss, the oldest and most constant of human experiences.
Julie Burstein
Creative works may indeed be kind of like property, but it’s property that we’re all building on.
Kirby Ferguson
The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.
Pablo Picasso
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
