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• Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle:

  Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

• Emilé Chartier:

  Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have.

• George Moore:

  It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

• George F. Walker:

  Basically it ain't my job to write plays that other people are writing.

• Grant Wood:

  All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

• Albert Einstein:

  The important thing is not to stop questioning.

• Roger von Eoch:

  I have a friend I go to whenever I have a really tough problem to solve. After I explain it to him, invariably his first question is, "What rules can we break?" He knows that I have assimilated so many rules into my thinking that after a while they become blind assumptions. It's difficult to be innovative if you're following blind assumptions.

• Rudolf Flesch:

  Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common. They are born whenever someone realizes that similarity ... Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.

• S.I. Hayakawa:

  If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

• Thomas Edison:

  There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!

• Edward de Bono:

  Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

• G.K. Chesterton:

  Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

• Kahlil Gibran:

  Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."

• Jonas Salk:

  Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

• Theodore Roosevelt:

  Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

• Goleman, Kaufman & Ray:

  Most of the information people get about a problem is of little or no use, while some is absolutely crucial; the key to creative problem-solving is being able to detect the relevant "signal" amid the irrelevant "noise."

• Julia Cameron:

  Creativity is an awful lot like sex. If it always has to be great, that creates a certain amount of performance anxiety. If, instead, you experiment a little, even when you're not in the mood and don't have time for a long candlelight dinner with your muse, interesting things may start to develop. You are married to your creativity, not just out on a first date. There has to be some comfort here. There has to be some room for compassion and "bad artist days." Let yourself write badly. You can rewrite later. Paint rotten canvases. You can paint over them. Just do ten minutes at the piano. It's better than none.

• Linda Carson:

  There are fewer rules than you think.

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