Creativity Quotes - Page 29

If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.

Hugh MacLeod

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Saul Steinberg

You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.

Orna Ross

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Robert M. Pirsig

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois

Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard

Michael Michalko

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to

William S Burroughs

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

Frédéric Chopin

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown

I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry. The finest dozen computer scientists I know are all musicians. Some are better than others, but they all consider that an important part of their life. I don't believe that the best people in any of these fields see themselves as one branch of a forked tree. I just don't see that.People bring these things together a lot. Dr. Land at Polaroid said, "I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science," and I've never forgotten that. I think that that's possible, and I think a lot of people have tried.

Steve Jobs

The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.

Katherine Mansfield

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

John Barth

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

IRVIN D.YALOM

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

Humphrey Carpenter

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

Lady Gaga

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Every one who has taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it that makes a difference.

Nolan Bushnell

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order

Virginia Woolf

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again.""Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

James A. Owen

The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you anymore. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.

Hugh MacLeod

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Alice Walker

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

James Thurber

DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your growth as an artist?EA: It didn't -- it stunted it entirely. I gave up over a year of my life and career helping Billy with his flop of an album and designing and building all of the costumes for his music video. With Courtney, we were friends, but I spent years working to record and promote her flop of an album only to find that my value increased every time I peed in an orange juice bottle so that she could fake her way through a drug test. Not exactly a haven for artistic growth.

Emilie Autumn

You can’t keep bitch-slapping your creativity, or it’ll run away and find a new pimp.

George Meyer

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

E.A. Bucchianeri

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

Ray Kurzweil

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?

Stan Brakhage

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Maya Angelou

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

Nikola Tesla

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

R. Buckminster Fuller

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

Robert Greene

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

Deb Caletti

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

Leonard Bernstein

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

Keri Smith

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

John Cleese

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Peter S Beagle

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

Antoine De Saint Exupery

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Leonard Bernstein

All good work requires self-revelation.

Sidney Lumet

I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. (...) Boredom opens up the space, for new engagements. Without boredom, no creativity. If you are not bored, you just stupidly enjoy the situation in which you are.

Slavoj Žižek

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

John O'Donohue

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

Heraclitus

As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

C.G. Jung

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

Ester Buchholz

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

Mike Sasso

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Ray Bradbury

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

Ken Robinson

look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...

Colette

I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

Jeremy Leven and Lord Byron

Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Arthur Koestler

I dream in fire but work in clay.

Arthur Machen

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Rollo May

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever

Anna Quindlen

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

Jim Butcher

Routine kills creative thought.

Scarlett Thomas

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