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"There are no problems - only opportunities to be creative."
Dorye Roettger
"As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
Henri Bergson
"Some men throw their gifts away on a life of mediocrity, great men throw everything they have into their gifts and achieve a life of success."
Greg Werner
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
Joseph Chilton Pierce
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
Mary Lou Cook
"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."
Warren G. Bennis
"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life."
Miles Davis
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Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus
By Roger Von Oech. "The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written, his ideas about life, nature, and the cosmos remain as startlingly original as ever. In Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It), Roger von Oech uses thirty of Heraclitus' epigrams as springboards to dazzling creativity. Treating each saying as an inexhaustible source of inspiration, he supplies amusing anecdotes, mind-bending riddles, hidden jokes, and intriguing questions designed to topple old habits of thought and fire the imagination.
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 Your Heart's Desire : Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want
By Sonia Choquette. "Nationally known intuitive and spiritual leader Sonia Choquette shares the nine universal principles for creating the reality of your dreams. Step by step, with practical advice, specific exercises, and modern-day parables, she teaches readers to make the changes in thought and behavior that will lead them to the attainment of their most heartfelt desires."
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 Affirmations for Artists
by Eric Maisel. "Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses. This book of affirmations is compiled with the special needs of artistic persons in mind. Arranged in alphabetical order by topic (Disbelief, Imitation, Talent), each page includes a handful of relevant quotations by writers, musicians, actors, or other creative people, a commentary by the author, and, of course, an affirmation."
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 The Comfort Queen's Guide to Life : Create All That You Need With Just What You've Got
by Jennifer Louden. "This deeply engaging book will help you discover the unique shape of your life by asking yourself questions. Then, with the help of the Comfort Queen, you will discover how to reorient your life around your own desires and needs rather than around time-management tricks. A Comfort Queen rules her own life. She treats herself with the same kindness and respect as she does the people she loves. She has a healthy sense of humor about herself. Rest, self-nurturing, and harmony are her imperial rights. She keeps her eye on the unfolding path of her life and lives by what she treasures. Or at least she tries. A Comfort Queen also knows that "balance" is not a realistic goal for realistic women. Having the perfect home, the perfect relationship, and enough quality time with your children and friends is a magazine article, not a life. Jennifer Louden and her Comfort Queen know that real life isn't about balance; it's about meaning!"
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 Instant Creativity
By Brian Clegg. "The only way to succeed nowadays is to throw away the rule book. Change is the name of the game, but innovation doesn't come easily. This is bad news when creativity is a survival skill. This book acts as a catalyst to free up your natural creativity - creativity that can be bottled up by habit, training or lack of energy. Instant Creativity provides an easy-to-use action kit bursting with exercises that will help everyone to make the most of his or her creativity. Full of simple, proven techniques that will help you find fresh ideas and solutions, the book offers over 70 approaches to creative thinking. Instant Creativity is an instant resource for individuals and teams to crack a problem or generate ideas. Innovation in an instant."
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 Five Star Mind : Games and Exercises to Stimulate Your Creativity and Imagination
By Tom Wujec. "Five Star Mind teaches you to unlock and expand the creative potential you already possess -- although you might not know it -- and develop it to give you confidence and skills that will enhance your work and your life. Using puzzles, tips, thought association, relaxation techniques, games of "What If," and constant questioning, Tom Wujec cajoles you into realizing your inherent power for creative thought and expression. In addition to helping you discover your innate abilities, Wujec shows you innumerable ways to apply your new ideas and creativity to work, to everyday life, or to just having fun. With Five Star Mind, you participate in the creative process, develop your inventiveness and imagination, and enhance skills that will have you cooking up five-star ideas of your own!"
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 Kaleidoscope : Artistic Techniques for the Creative Soul
By Elizabeth Keely Wilson. "Through spontaneous imagery and inspired wisdom, Kaleidiscope explores the ever-changing contours of one's inner landscape as expressed during the creative process. A single piece of poetry accented by a colorful mandalic images guides the reader, step by step, through the transformative process as body, mind, and spirit blossom into fullness in the garden of the soul. Each chapter closes with a visualization exercise and painting instructions designed to engage the reader in the discovery and exploration of her/his own spiritual creativity. The book concludes with a fairy tale "The Maiden and the Frog" which reflects, from a different perspective, the journey from the mind to the heart. An Appendix appears at the end of the book with detailed descriptions of the many artistic materials and techniques used in the practice of intuitive art as well as a listing of additional books for further reading."
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 Why Are You Creative?
"This book offers a unique approach to the study of creativity by posing the title question to dozens of various creative professionals--actors, artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers and politicians--and then analyzing their ultimately revealing answers. Readers will discover fascinating insights into the nature of creativity and their favorite celebrities, including: Mel Gibson, Johnny Depp, Stephen Spielberg,George Bush, David Bowie, Salman Rushdie, Juliette Binoche, and more. Author Hermann Vaske has packed this extraordinary pop culture treasure with original sketches, scribblings and responses from and photos of each interviewee. Throughout, the hidden meanings and motivations of each subject reveal the wonder of individual creativity, and provide a foundation for the beginning of a fascinating dialogue about this aspect of being human."
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 Creativity Games for Trainers: A Handbook of Group Activities for Jumpstarting Workplace Creativity
By Robert Epstein. "Games to Jumpstart workplace creativity. Dr. Robert Epstein's Creativity Games for Trainers arms you with 30 innovative, entertaining games guaranteed to enhance creativity in any organizational setting. Use them to develop creativity workshops or to breathe life into any training sessions. Each ready-to-use activity comes complete with lists of required and optional materials, time recommendations, reproducible handouts, follow-up discussion questions, and other essential information. You'll also find simple instructions for customizing exercises to different settings ... data collection forms to help measure and track success ... special 'challenge exercises' that help participants develop their own games ... and unique 'application exercises' to assist users in promoting creativity on their own."
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 Everyday Art for Kids : Projects to Unlock Creativity
by Carolyn Holm. "This award winning book offers over 250 art activities designed to encourage kids to make art a part of their everyday lives. Skills and materials are described with how-tos and recipes, but the projects themselves are open-ended to encourage creativity and to allow different results each time and by different age levels. Parent guidelines empower even "art impaired" adults, providing what every parent and teacher needs to know to create an environment that gets kids excited about art. Winner of a Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award."
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 Strong Hearts, Inspired Minds : 21 Artists Who Are Mothers Tell Their Stories
"Anne Mavor has compiled in-depth interviews with 21 varied artists who are also mothers. There are writers, scuptors, painters, musicians, video artists, performance artists, and printmakers. They come from different class and ethnic backgrounds and have made different choices in their lives. They discuss how and why they became mothers, how their motherhood affected their artwork and how their artwork affected being mothers. They speak about the hard parts of combining these two demanding jobs as well as the rewards. Each interview is accompanied by an elegant and candid photo of the artist taken by photographer Christine Eagon specifically for the book."
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 Fanning the Creative Spirit
By Maria Girsch & Charlie Girsch. "This playful book is both inspiring and informing. It is a treasure chest of tips, tools and techniques for refreshing the creative spirit. From their unique "Stretchercises™" to their no-fail "Get-Your-Butt-Fired Technique™," this is a primer based on the experiences of two award-winning toy inventors who share their tried-and-true brand of innovative creativity. It is a simplifying of the creative process for everyone, everyday, everywhere."
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 How Much Joy Can You Stand : A Creative Guide to Facing Your Fears and Making Your Dreams Come True
By Suzanne Falter-Barns. For everyone who's having trouble starting that screenplay, business plan, doctoral thesis, or patchwork quilt, novelist and essayist Suzanne Falter-Barns provides inspiration. She shares insights on talent and whether it matters, why helpful things begin to happen when we follow our dreams, and new ways to think about the inevitable failures. This book's wisdom is liberally laced with humor for a kick-start to joyful living.
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 Creativity : Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. "This book is about what makes life worth living. The creative excitement of the artist at her easel or the scientist in the lab. It comes as close to the ideal fulfillment as we all hope to accomplish, and so rarely do. Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi interviewed more than ninety of possibly the most interesting people in the world -- people like actor Ed Asner, authors Robertson Davies and Nadine Gordimer, scientists Jonas Salk and Linus Pauling, and Senator Eugene McCarthy -- who have changed the way people in their fields think and work to find out how creativity has been a force in their lives."
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 This Time I Dance! Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love: How One Harvard Lawyer Left It All to Have It All!
by Tama J. Kieves. "If you've ever wanted your own personal mentor, champion of your gifts, advocate for your dreams...your support system has arrived. As an accomplished alternative career coach and one who has "walked the walk," Tama J. Kieves now shares the inspiring wisdom she has taught for years in her well-loved workshops. Examining each fear from the inside out with wicked humor and cutting authenticity, the author takes the ideal of doing work you love into living, breathing, and "telling your mother" actuality. Through practical stories of overcoming insecurities, Tama J.Kieves shares her journey of leaving behind life as a corporate lawyer to rediscover her buried creative self, write, and develop a soul-inspired livelihood. Imbued with an intoxicating and intimate writing style, This Time I Dance! can convince you, even if you're cynical, to uncover and live your ultimate dreams and trust your amazing adventure."
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 Creativity and Personality Type : Tools for Understanding and Inspiring the Many Voices of Creativity
By Marci Segal. Creativity and Personality Type prepares you for your future. It reveals how your pattern of personality naturally translates and uses creative energies. You will learn your essential energy pattern, how to shift your energies to open yourself to new perspectives, and how to use helpful tools to deliberately inspire the release of creativity in others as well as yourself. Part of the Understanding Yourself and Others(R) Series.
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 The Art Therapy Sourcebook
By Cathy Malchiodi. Shaun McNiff, PhD, ATR, HLM. Author, Trust the Process and Art as Medicine, had this to say about 'The Art Therapy Sourcebook': "Since our ancestors began drawing on cave walls, humans have intuitively known that expressing emotions through art was healthy. Now, 20,000 years later, Cathy Malchiodi brings us a smart overview of the use of art as a therapeutic tool. In this concise and easy-to-read book, Malchiodi treats the reader to fascinating case studies and valuable pointers in helping us to open up and explore our nature creatively. This book is ideally suited for people beginning to explore art Power of Expressing Sourcebook makes a major contribution to art therapy going mainstream. This is the most accessible and complete art therapy book ever published. It's a great achievement for Cathy Malchiodi and for art therapy."
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 The Little Book of Big Ideas
Inspiration, Encouragement & Tips to Stimulate Creativity and Improve Your Life by Harold R. McAlindon, Michael Michalko. "Far too many good ideas and dreams die premature deaths. This is the primary reason that I wrote "The Little Book of Big Ideas". I have attempted to pack into the pages, information, encouragement, tips, techniques and inspiration that would help people convert creativity to personal and professional realities that are important to them."(By the Author) The book also includes questions, action steps and suggestions to help you get started, and keep going, as you understand and utilize the great creative capacity that exists in all of us.
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 The Idea Generator: Quick and Easy Kaizen
By Bunji Tozawa, Norman Bodek. The goal of this book is to guide improvement activities throughout the organization: to use creative ideas from all employees to serve both internal and external customers, to unlock the hidden potential of every single employee, and to bring new excitement and joy into the workplace. Dana Corporation gets over 2,000,000 ideas a year from all of their employees. This book tells you how to do it.
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 A Whack on the Side of the Head : How You Can Be More Creative
By Roger Von Oech. The Whack is back! Revised and expanded for the 1990s, here is the bestselling creative-thinking classic written by America's foremost creativity consultant.
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 The Creativity Book : A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
By Eric Maisel. Whether you're a painter or a human resources manager, a novelist or an information services specialist, says Eric Maisel, whatever you do, creativity helps you do it better. In this book, Maisel presents a complete one-year plan for unleashing your creativity. It uncludes two discussions/exercises per week, and culminates in a guided project of your choice--from working on your current novel to planning a new home business.
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 The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
By Betty Edwards. A revised and expanded edition of the classic drawing-instruction book that has sold more than 2,500,000 copies.
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 How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
By Michael J. Gelb. Here's a personal growth guidebook that's won the admiration and recommendation of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England. He calls this "a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability." Author Michael Gelb, founder of High Performance Learning and consultant for companies including AT&T and National Public Radio, says that we all can unlock the "da Vincian" genius inside us.
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 Cracking Creativity : The Secrets of Creative Genius
By Michael Michalko. What exactly is creativity? Why do some people seem to have so much of it? Can their secrets be learned? In this trail-blazing book, internationally renowned business creativity expert Michael Michalko answers these questions and more, bringing life-changing techniques into everyone's reach. Michalko has researched and analyzed over 100 of history's greatest thinkers-from Leonardo da Vinci to Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison to Walt Disney-to show readers how creative people think and how to put their secrets to use
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 The Artist's Way : A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
By Julia Cameron. With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity
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 Creative Whack Pack
By Roger Von Oech (Creator). An illustrated deck of 64 creative thinking strategies to enhance every player's creativity. Complete instructions are included with cards. It's fun, and it works!
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 Writeriffic: Creativity Training For Writers
By Eva Shaw, Ph.D.With proven writing techniques, professional advice and scores of writing exercises, Writeriffic: Creativity Training For Writers, helps fiction and nonfiction writers increase their creativity and productivity in all genres. Dr.Eva Shaw has mentored thousands to achieve their dreams of being published writers and by following her advice the reader who selects this book can do the same.
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 Creative Companion : How to Free Your Creative Spirit
By Sark. Writer, artist, free spirit, and self-described "dangerous woman, " SARK readsfrom her lovely, lighthearted book on becoming an artist. Guaranteed to bringa little magic into even the most sensible life. (Ingram)
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 Journaling From The Heart
By Eldonna Bouton. Now you can experience Eldonna Bouton's popular journaling workshops on your own, or create an independent writing group in your community. 75 assignments taken from the author’s popular workshops. Features guidelines for getting the most out of your independent journal work, or forming a journaling group. Includes extensive bibliography of journaling resources.
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 The Path of Least Resistance : Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life
By Robert Fritz. A revolutionary program for creating anything, from a functional kitchen to a computer program, to a work of art, Robert Fritz demonstrates that any of us has the innate power to create. Discover the steps of creating; the importance of creating what you truly love, how to focus on the creative process to move from where you are to where you want to be, and much more.
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 The Best of NPR: On Creativity
From AudioFile: "National Public Radio offers a multifaceted look at creativity over the past century with a compilation of interviews and readings from Bailey White, Dave Brubeck, William Maxwell and Kenny Garrett, among others. Thoughtful interviews with lively music interspersed provide 90 minutes of inspiration to exercise the mind. With segments lasting just a few minutes each, the listener enjoys a feast of food for thought without the ponderous weight of a documentary. Through personal interviews and recollections--including a piece on the creative balance within the Beatles--NPR brings the world of creativity down to a level that both professional and amateur can enjoy. H.L.S. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine "
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Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus
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 By Roger Von Oech. "The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written, his ideas about life, nature, and the cosmos remain as startlingly original as ever. In Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It), Roger von Oech uses thirty of Heraclitus' epigrams as springboards to dazzling creativity. Treating each saying as an inexhaustible source of inspiration, he supplies amusing anecdotes, mind-bending riddles, hidden jokes, and intriguing questions designed to topple old habits of thought and fire the imagination.
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Your Heart's Desire : Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want
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By Sonia Choquette. "Nationally known intuitive and spiritual leader Sonia Choquette shares the nine universal principles for creating the reality of your dreams. Step by step, with practical advice, specific exercises, and modern-day parables, she teaches readers to make the changes in thought and behavior that will lead them to the attainment of their most heartfelt desires."
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Affirmations for Artists
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by Eric Maisel. "Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses. This book of affirmations is compiled with the special needs of artistic persons in mind. Arranged in alphabetical order by topic (Disbelief, Imitation, Talent), each page includes a handful of relevant quotations by writers, musicians, actors, or other creative people, a commentary by the author, and, of course, an affirmation."
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