Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
No-limit people are so in charge that they can trust their instincts, be childlike, be creative, do anything that makes sense to them and make their lives into what they really believe they want for themselves.
Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,_x000D_ _x000D_ imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.
To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
There 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
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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