<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Creativity - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is contagious, pass it on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is contagious, pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10599]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The original is unfaithful to the translation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The original is unfaithful to the translation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people see things and ask Why?I dream things which never were and askWhy not? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people see things and ask Why?I dream things which never were and askWhy not?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10577]]></link><description><![CDATA[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creation is a drug I can't do without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creation is a drug I can't do without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin with another's to end with your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin with another's to end with your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play what's there, play what's not there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play what's there, play what's not there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10564]]></link><description><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are the root of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are the root of creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10553</guid></item></channel></rss>