Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!

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.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.

Terry Tempest Williams

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

Terry Gilliam

I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!

Terry Gross

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.

Teju Cole

The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.

Lawrence Clark Powell

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Marc Jacobs

When you design a dress you ask yourself, would woman like it or no. It's much more of a creative process, not a research or trying to make somethings that sells or appeals. I hope that it will appeal to somebody, but it isn't what drives me.

Thomas A. Edison

M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n!

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.

Kofi Annan

Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the authority of universal ideals. Let us choose to reconcile the creative forces of private entrepreneurship with the needs of the disadvantaged and the requirements of future generations.

Kevin Kline

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

Rachelle Lefevre

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Scarlett Thomas

Routine kills creative thought.

Lin Yutang

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

Lenny Kravitz

I just feel so good; it feels like a very creative time for me. As far as my mind, spirit, and body, I've never felt better.

Laurie Helgoe

Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.

L. Ron Hubbard

Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.

Theophilus London

I keep a creative group around me.

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.