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It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.

... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.

Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.