Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar.

Noam Chomsky

Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

Jessica Tandy

I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

Glen Hansard

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Frank Herbert

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

Frank Herbert

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Jim Butcher

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Natalie Clifford Barney

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

Kelsey Grammer

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

Kim Gordon

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

Kevin Roberts

We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners.

Oscar Niemeyer

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Oprah Winfrey

I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.

Marcel Duchamp

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

Marcel Duchamp

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Marc Almond

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

Ken Robinson

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

Ken Robinson

We get educated out of creativity.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Ken Robinson

To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

Ken Robinson

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Ken Robinson

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Ken Robinson

We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

Ken Robinson

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.