Creativity Quotes

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

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"We use props and settings to enhance our social performances."
Irving Goffman
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"Social life is a series of performances with rehearsed and improvised elements."
Irving Goffman
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"We construct reality through shared definitions and cooperative action."
Irving Goffman
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"Social interaction is a form of collaborative storytelling."
Irving Goffman
"Creativity is increasingly the only thing machines cannot replace."
Zygmunt Bauman
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"Creativity emerges from the synthesis of opposites."
Georg Simmel
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"Creativity requires both constraint and freedom."
Georg Simmel
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Charles Cooley
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"Imagination is what makes human society possible."
Charles Cooley
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"The human capacity for imagination sets us apart from other creatures."
Charles Cooley
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"The power of imagination lies in its ability to transcend the present."
Charles Cooley
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"Imagination is the power to transcend the immediate and the actual."
Charles Cooley
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"Creativity is constrained by the forms and conventions already established in a field."
Pierre Bourdieu
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"Creativity emerges from the intersection of individual imagination and social constraints."
Anthony Giddens
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"Creativity requires both constraint and freedom, discipline and spontaneity."
Anthony Giddens
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"Creativity emerges from the synthesis of contradictions."
Georg Simmel
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"The self is a character we gradually perfect through countless rehearsals and performances."
Irving Goffman
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"The growth of the mind is the feeding of the imagination."
Charles Cooley
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Charles Cooley
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"Innovation requires the courage to imagine beyond convention."
Charles Cooley
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"We use props and settings to enhance our performances and control impressions."
Erving Goffman
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"The setting and props of a situation profoundly influence the performance given."
Erving Goffman
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"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Max Weber
"Imagination is not escape from reality but the capacity to envision different realities."
C. Wright Mills
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"Imitation is the assimilation of another's reality into one's own."
Georg Simmel
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"All culture begins as rebellion against nature."
Georg Simmel
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"People use props and settings to enhance their performances"
Erving Goffman
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"People are most creative when they feel safe from judgment and evaluation"
Erving Goffman
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"Modern creativity is often celebrated while the conditions that would allow genuine creativity are systematically undermined."
Anthony Giddens
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"Innovation requires breaking free from the tyranny of what others think of us."
Charles Cooley