Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitchell Hurwitz

If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.

Maria Canals Barrera

A good smell puts me in a great mood and even inspires my creativity.

Mark Victor Hansen

Entrepreneurs have two basic assets: their creativity and their relationships.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Hyman Rickover

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

Hyman Rickover

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Giorgio Armani

For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.

J. K. Rowling

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

J. Tillman

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

Martha Gellhorn

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Martha Graham

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.

Martha Beck

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

Marion Nestle

One can only be in awe of the creativity of chocolate marketers. My take is that if there is a health benefit, it is small.

Paul Ryan

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

Pam Grier

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

Julia Margaret Cameron

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Judd Apatow

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

Judd Apatow

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Today's a great time to be any creative type of person, I think, and in just about every aspect of creativity, this generation is going to blow away every generation ever. Because we're the first ones with the Internet. I can get together with some friends, shoot a movie, cut it on my laptop at home, and then put it online. We don't have to listen to anyone.

Leonardo da Vinci

I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Naomi Watts

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Nadine Gordimer

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

Mitt Romney

Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

R. Buckminster Fuller

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

Pope Paul VI

Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop and are concentrated, others die or change their location. Thus new social problems are created: professional or regional unemployment, redeployment and mobility of persons, permanent adaptation of workers and disparity of conditions in the different branches of industry.

Neil Strauss

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.

Rachel Maddow

I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships. And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture.

Nelson Goodman

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.