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Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life. -- Christopher Paul Curtis
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level. -- Vladimir Kramnik
Normal means lack of imagination and creativity. -- Jean Dubuffet
Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me. -- Jan de Bont
Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation. -- Wayne Dyer
We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity. -- Bob Goff
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. -- Albert Einstein
These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference. -- Ken Robinson
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin. -- Ann Patchett
If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won't join gangs. My life since leaving the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have. -- Luis J. Rodriguez
Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists. -- Anthony Browne
Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment. -- Edmund Phelps
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story. -- Amy Bloom
The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God. -- Erwin McManus
Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there. -- Meir Shalev
I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. -- Ken Robinson
God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from. -- Erwin McManus
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -- Sylvia Plath
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. -- Al Gore
I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the television to watch a movie or play Nintendo or Xbox. I think there is nothing better for killing creativity and imagination. -- Alexandra Adornetto
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. -- David Walliams
Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind. -- James Altucher
One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner. -- Kate Forsyth
Creativity is applied Imagination -- Matthew Donnelly
Imagination is a divine creativity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
You can think of creativity as applied imagination. -- Ken Robinson
Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination. -- Benny Goodman
Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground. -- Jaeda DeWalt
Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity. -- Steve Vai
Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity. -- Gary Busey
Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity. -- Richard L. Peterson
Creativity is more important than imagination because it requires action. -- Matthew Donnelly
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity. -- Russell Simmons
Creativity flows when the mind is light. Be light and ignite your imagination. -- Amy Leigh Mercree
Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing. -- Aneta Cruz
The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety. -- Deepak Chopra
Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination. -- Ken Robinson
Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind. -- Robert Toth
Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul. -- Donald L. Hicks
Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual. -- Tom Boellstorff
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort. -- Alex Faickney Osborn
Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. -- Vladimir Nabokov
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. -- Jean Dubuffet
Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity. -- Guy Fieri
That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway. -- Zoe Whittall
Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life. -- Alecia Stone
Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination. -- Carla H. Krueger
The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free. -- Yanni
Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you! -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work. -- Bob Dylan
Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned. -- Nita Leland
The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination. -- Josh Linkner
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences. -- Fausto Cercignani
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art. -- Bruce Lee
Mel Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination. -- Jan Phillips
The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity. -- Larry R. Thompson
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life. -- Sarah Curran
For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic. -- Giorgio Armani
Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind. -- James Altucher
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. -- Robert Genn
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil. -- Bernard Baruch
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology. -- Antonio Damasio

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