Famous Quotes & Sayings

Azim Premji

When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near.

Ben Kingsley

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

Albert Einstein

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Debbie Allen

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Anais Nin

For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

Swizz Beatz

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

Steve Jobs

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

Steve Jobs

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.

Sri Chinmoy

Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.

Bret Michaels

As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.

Dirk Benedict

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

T. Harv Eker

If you are going to work hard anyway, you might as well get rich...and the quicker the better!

Scott Westerfeld

Hard work's a good distraction.

Paula Creamer

I just have to keep working hard.

Erykah Badu

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

Evelyn Ashford

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Eve Ensler

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

Francesca Annis

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

C. S. Lewis

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Al Gore

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Bob Dylan

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...

Brit Marling

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

Abdallah II of Jordan

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

John Browning

we had run out of ideas at Los Alamos.