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Quotations Page > Unleashing Your Creativity

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

Mary Lou Cook



When the artist is alive in any person, whatever the type of work, he or she becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Robert Henri



To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love.

Leo Buscaglia



Care more than others think wise. Risk more than others think safe. Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible.

Howard Schultz



When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali



The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw



Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, Love, Love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart



The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein



The two terrors that discourage originality and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one’s own consistency.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

Raymond Inmon



It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

John Steinbeck



Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



If I had my life to live over again, I’d dare to make more mistakes the next time.

Nadine Stair



Things work out best for the people who make the best out of how things turn out.

Art Linkletter



Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi



Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain