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  • Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.

  • Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

    Tributes to Steve Jobs, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.
  • R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.

    Creative   Soul   Genius  
  • Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

    "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.
  • The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

  • I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

    Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
  • To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  • American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

  • For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself

    Song: Jimmy Kimmel Interview Pt. 1, 2013
  • What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To Be More Creative, that's for sure... If startling insights could be systematically arrived at, they wouldn't be startling. The best you can do is to create a conducive environment: put in the hours; take time to daydream; avoid mind-corroding substances.

    Book   Reading   Creative  
    "This column will change your life: creative thinking" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2013.
  • Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.133, Beacon Press
  • Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

    "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.
  • Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses.

    Sex   Creative   Energy  
  • The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

    Drama   Passion   People  
    Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.94
  • Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

    Art   Race   Color  
    Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.847, Best Books on
  • The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

  • Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

  • There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

  • First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

    David Ogilvy (1978). “Blood, Brains and Beer”
  • Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

  • Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

    Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.554, Routledge
  • Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

    Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”
  • Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

    James A. Michener (2014). “The Novel”, p.65, Dial Press
  • If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

    Writing   Airports   Two  
    "Kanye West responds to Obama criticism" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2013.
  • I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

    "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.
  • Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

    William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.195, Courier Corporation
  • The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things

  • Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies: So, You're a Creative Genius is the best book available on modern cartography.

    Kings   Book   Dust  
  • The best revenge is the massive success.

  • How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

    Beauty   Art   Stars  
    Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.356, New York Review of Books
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