If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Creativity
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
-William Goldman
Creativity takes courage.
-Henri Matisse
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
-Ayn Rand
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
-Jean Piaget
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
-Pablo Picasso
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity can not exist.
-Richard Diaz
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
-Ray Bradbury
"Zen in the Art of Writing"
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-Scott Adams
