Creativity Quotes

Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.

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"We construct our identities through the stories we tell about ourselves."
Gordon Allport
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"Creativity emerges from the integration of diverse mental processes."
Gordon Allport
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"Creativity flourishes when there is both structure and freedom."
Gordon Allport
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"Creativity is the ability to make unusual connections between disparate ideas."
Hans Eysenck
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"The most creative people are often those who can tolerate ambiguity."
Hans Eysenck
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"Creativity requires the courage to be wrong."
Hans Eysenck
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"Every neurosis is a creative attempt to solve an impossible situation."
Alice Miller
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"Creativity is the solution to emotional suffering, not its product."
Alice Miller
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"Creativity flourishes when we permit ourselves to make mistakes."
Alice Miller
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"Creativity is not a talent, it is a way of operating. It requires courage to think differently about human potential."
Raymond Cattell
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"The creative person is often the one who is willing to be wrong in pursuit of discovering something new."
Raymond Cattell
"The diffuse mode is where creativity happens in your brain."
Barbara Oakley
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"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after you find it."
Rollo May
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"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
Rollo May
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"The creative act requires courage because it means breaking with the past."
Rollo May
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"We are most creative when we are most free from external constraints."
Rollo May
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"Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement."
James Clear
"Creativity emerges from our willingness to be vulnerable and authentic."
Dacher Keltner
"Creativity flourishes when we give ourselves permission to fail."
Dacher Keltner
"Creativity is the expression of our unique vision and voice."
Dacher Keltner
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"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
Gordon Allport
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"Creative thinking breaks the chains of conventional wisdom."
Gordon Allport
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"Creativity flourishes when we are free from the tyranny of judgment."
Gordon Allport
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"Creativity emerges at the intersection of freedom and constraint."
Gordon Allport
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"Creativity emerges from the depths of human consciousness."
David Buss
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"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
Rollo May
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"Anxiety is the price one pays for creativity."
Rollo May
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"The creative person is one who experiences the fullness of being."
Rollo May
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"Creativity is the act of bringing something into being that was not before."
Rollo May
"Metaphors and analogies are powerful tools for understanding abstract concepts."
Barbara Oakley