Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Arkin

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

Alan Alda

If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

Akio Morita

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

Akio Morita

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

Akio Morita

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

Chogyam Trungpa

People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

Chinua Achebe

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

Chin-Ning Chu

By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Charles Stanley

Relationship is the difference between grace and law.

Alan Watts

Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.

Chris Bohjalian

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

Edward Gibbon

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

David Viscott

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

David Remnick

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

David Ricardo

It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always in mind the immediate and temporary effects of particular changes, whereas I put these effects quite aside, and fix my whole attention on the long-term effects that will result from them.

Chogyam Trungpa

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

Edith Schaeffer

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

David Duchovny

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Ben Vereen

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

Ben Stiller

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Barry Diller

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

Audre Lorde

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

Denzel Washington

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

Denis Leary

You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.