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.

Steve Vai

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Veronica Roth

Ingenuity requires creativity.

Sadie Jones

Ive always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where youre writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.

Yoko Ono

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

Yoko Ono

It's better to dance than to march through life.

Wynn Bullock

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Ken Robinson

If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original

I just like everything about this industry. There's a lot of creativity in what we do.

Josef Albers

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

Kevin Spacey

There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.

Harvey Mackay

You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.

James Altucher

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

Hedda Hopper

TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

Henry David Thoreau

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Friedrich Schiller

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

George Gilder

In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.

George Gilder

Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.

George Gilder

Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.

Jon Katz

Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.

Joichi Ito

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

Joichi Ito

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Jon Bon Jovi

THE CREATIVITY IS JUST SOMETHING THAT, I DON'T KNOW, YOU WORK VERY HARD AT, BUT PART OF YOU SAYS THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH IT. IT'S A CRAFT LIKE EVERY OTHER, YOU HAVE TO KEEP SHARP AND YOU HAVE TO BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

John Cleese

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.