1. Creative people are 50% ego and 50% insecurity.-Lee Clow
2. Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.-E. B. White
3. Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.-Criss Jami
4. The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.-Neil deGrasse Tyson
5. What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.-Alex Steffen
6. As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can.-Jami Attenberg
7. Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.-Mel Brooks
8. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.-Steve Jobs
9. If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude.-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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10. Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.-Alan Cohen
11. There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.-Mary Oliver
12. The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility… Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they’re playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they’re critical and faultfinding. And finally they’re doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.-Roger Von Oech
13. All creative people want to do the unexpected.-Hedy Lamarr
14. With creative people, truly new horizons open up.-Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
15. Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.-Dag Hammarskjold
16. Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.-David Brin
17. Everything that creative people think and do is from the heart.-Deepika Padukone
18. Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.-Robert Rodriguez
19. Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed.-Amit Kalantri
20. All creative people hate mathematics. It’s the most uncreative subject you can study.-Alec Issigonis
21. Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.-Theodore Levitt
22. Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.-Steven Pinker
23. Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.-Henri Matisse
24. Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius.-Marshall Cook
25. Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.-Neil deGrasse Tyson
26. To creative people, the compendium of the white man’s dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.-Michael Bassey Johnson
27. Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.-Rita Mae Brown
28. Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.-Abraham Maslow
29. The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.-John Cleese