Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorne Michaels

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

Twyla Tharp

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

Twyla Tharp

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

Wilferd Peterson

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress

Wavy Gravy

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

Voltaire

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

William Pollard

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

William Plomer

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Trent Reznor

To switch right into creativity usually takes a bit of time, and this came up right at that juncture where I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to work with somebody I really respect in a new medium.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Pete Johnson

We've got 10 men working on the Discovery, but we could use six more.

John le Carre

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

Henry David Thoreau

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Hilary Mantel

For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Jodie Foster

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

Jim Rohn

You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

James Detorre

They're crossing their fingers because disposable income is so low. They must be more creative and fun, so people can take their minds off other issues.

Chris Graveline

It was creative -- it was creative abuse.

Toby Keith

It was the most creative thing I've done in a decade.

Cathie Izen

It was a very creative way of getting the kids to understand the dangers.