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"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." Carl Gustav Jung 3.0000 average rating  
"Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art." John Fitzgerald Kennedy 4.5000 average rating  
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." Martin Luther King, Jr. 5.0000 average rating  
"Questions are the creative acts of intelligence." Frank Kingdon 3.0000 average rating  
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." Arthur Koestler 5.0000 average rating  
"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity." Edwin H. Land 4.6250 average rating  
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." Clive Staples Lewis 4.5000 average rating  
"You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up." Daniel Day Lewis 3.5000 average rating  
"I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child; they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind." Sybil Marshall 4.0000 average rating  
"Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear." Abraham Maslow 3.6667 average rating  
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." Herman Melville 4.7288 average rating  
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." Henry Louis Mencken 4.6364 average rating  
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand." Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger 4.2857 average rating  
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality." John Stuart Mill 5.0000 average rating  
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." Charles Mingu 4.8095 average rating  
"The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation." Stephen Neill 5.0000 average rating  
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