Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Robinson

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

Ken Robinson

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Ken Robinson

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is as important as literacy

Ken Robinson

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

Ken Robinson

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

Ken Robinson

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

Ken Robinson

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

Ken Robinson

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

Sonny Rollins

I can name a lot of people whose productive, whose creativity dies when they got L.A. Maybe it's too laid back. It's too comfortable.

Hunter S. Thompson

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

Jay Inslee

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

Carla Hall

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

Bryan Cranston

Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.

James Dyson

It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.

Jarvis Cocker

If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, Internet is pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"

Jarvis Cocker

It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a lot of it comes from the unconscious. So if you’re always checking your email or updating your Instagram profile, you’re not just looking out the window, daydreaming. You’ve got to let the subconscious in – that’s my main message to the world.

Jarvis Cocker

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

Jane Badler

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Ethan Suplee

I think about the period of, like, the '70s and early '80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there was no CGI or anything like that and people had to get super creative. And then, you know, when you've got somebody who can paint you any picture on a computer and you get hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie, its almost like the creativity diminishes somewhat.

Ethan Zuckerman

Creativity is an import-export business.

Nowadays true job satisfaction and happiness is about fulfilling your full potential, tapping into your own creativity and feeling that you can make a difference,

Marc Cherry

The series is a machine that just keeps eating up whatever creativity I have. I start out thinking that I have enough ideas to take me through the whole season, and then by the sixth episode, the sad surprise is that I've used up things that I thought would take me a whole season to use up. I've started to run out of stuff.

A little human creativity matched up with tremendous human need.

Stephen Colbert

They thought it was warping their children's minds. Which it might have been, but it also took a lot of creativity to play it.

Steve Jobs

This is the direct result of our focus on innovation and the immense talent and creativity at Apple. We could not be more excited about the new products we're working on for 2006.

-You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. -What mood is that? -Last-minute panic.

Gertrude Stein

It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

Gretchen Rubin

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.