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John Updike
: Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
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I bring out an engineer, everything fits into a suitcase and we just record. I have so much spare time during that day that it makes sense to utilize it to do something creative like that, as opposed to just sitting around the hotel and sightseeing or something.
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Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS...
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
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Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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