Creativity Quotes

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.

All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.

Creativity is just connecting things. 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. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.

I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

Creativity's about ownership.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

I associate creativity with independent music.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the line is going to move forward.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.