Creativity is a renewable resource. Be as creative as you like, as often as you like, because you can never run out.
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Biz Stone
Babson College Commencement 2011, 2011
You can't do it alone. Be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
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Amy Poehler
Harvard College Class Day 2011, 2011
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.
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Conan O'Brien
Dartmouth College Commencement 2011, 2011
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
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Conan O'Brien
Dartmouth College Commencement 2011, 2011
Whatever you think or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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Tiffany Shlain
UC Berkeley Commencement 2010, 2010
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is an imagined possibility.
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Meryl Streep
Barnard College Commencement 2010, 2010
Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.
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Wade Davis
Colorado College Commencement 2010, 2010
Sharing leads to connections, connections lead to collaboration, collaboration leads to creativity and innovation. Creativity and innovation are what change the world.
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Marissa Mayer
Illinois Institute of Technology Commencement 2009, 2009
The earth couldn't afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint.
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Paul Hawken
University of Portland Commencement 2009, 2009
Imagination is cultivated, above all, by courses in the arts and humanities. It is in some ways the most essential of all, if we are to work toward a world in which we see distant lives as spacious and deep.
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Martha Nussbaum
Connecticut College Commencement 2009, 2009
Not knowing is just as important, if not more important, because you do not know yet what can't be done.
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Robert Rodriguez
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2009, 2009
I've always tried to be that little kid with his hand in the air. It really works to be that naive, to really think you can do anything.
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Robert Rodriguez
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2009, 2009