Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Carol Oates

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

Kate Baldwin

If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

Julie Delpy

We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive. It’s very rare to be able to do that. It’s completely pure.

Josh Gad

When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.

Peter McWilliams

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

Pete Carroll

You do what you have to do to compete, and that takes you to places where you are in a relentless state to find an edge and compete. That mentality keeps you on and on point. The how is following the drive, being resourceful and creative.

Polykarp Kusch

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

Judy Greer

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

Maria Semple

I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.

Paul Theroux

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

Paramahansa Yogananda

Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.

Patty Duke

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

Mel Gibson

Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.

Mel Brooks

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Pope John Paul II

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Joe Perry

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

Joe Eszterhas

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his positions to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

Eric Thomas

Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative.

John Friend

Over time the energy generated in romance and lovemaking provides the vitality that inspires each partner for enthusiastic creative expression in life.

John Galliano

In the early days I was incredibly creative and productive - I loved the research trips, I loved the creation and finding technical solutions to creative challenges. I didn't need alcohol and the pills for that. What changed was, I was afraid to say no - that little word, N.O. Because I thought it showed weakness. And with more and more success I would just say yes. And keep on taking more work on - which took its toll.

John O'Donohue

Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.

Leo Burnett

Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.

Lawrence Lessig

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

Joyce Meyer

Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

Joseph Murphy

All you have to do is unite, mentally and emotionally with the good you wish to embody. The creative powers of your subconscious will respond accordingly.

Justin Halpern

If it's not bourbon or sweatpants, it's going in the garbage.... No, don't get creative. Now is not a creative time. Now is a bourbon and sweatpants time.

Justin Theroux

I would always choose the script. You get more creative control that way. But, when you're in a situation like this, where everyone is really funny and you really want to do it, that's the chance of a lifetime, so you want to do it. But, a script has longer legs than a performance and, in the end, is more satisfying. It's harder, but it's more satisfying.

Joshua Foer

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Leigh Steinberg

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Lawrence Welk

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

John Keats

That which is creative must create itself.