Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Bill Bradley

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

We were so incredibly fortunate to have had Joe at the studio sharing his creativity and enthusiasm, and inspiring young talent for such a long time.

William Shakespeare

Have patience, and endure

William Shakespeare

Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!

Jeff Zucker

I wondered if I would find the next few years as personally fulfilling as the first four I have spent as the president of NBC News. I also found myself missing the opportunity for the kind of creativity I've had in previous jobs.

I was impressed by his enthusiasm and creativity and the record he had.

I have a room in my house in Scotland, a music room, and when I walk into it the creativity comes for writing. There is an energy in the room you can feel it.

I think it helped my creativity to be in a town that didn't have that influence. It helped the productivity to be in a place where there wasn't much structure. You had to make it happen for yourself.

Eric Johnson

I think it's a tribute (to the book) to how much creativity has played in showing the dog's perspective.

There is new creativity being expressed; the sound and style of the music mirrors a lot of what is going on in the culture. The music is very contemporary.

I also found myself missing the opportunity for the kind of creativity that I've had in previous jobs,

He had a great mixture of an engineer's mind and the creativity of an artist. He was one of the most impressive young men I've ever met. I am so proud to have been his teacher.

I did not predict the full range of creativity.

Jim Tressel

I don't ever like to squash one's creativity.

David Brooks

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

David Allen

It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

David Allen

Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.

David Allen

Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

David Deutsch

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

Carl Sagan

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Buddy Rich

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

Buddy Rich

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.

Bryan Adams

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

Aaron Swartz

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Charlotte Bronte

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

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.

Al Seckel

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.

Al Hirschfeld

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

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.