Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rollo May

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Rollo May

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Rollo May

What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.

Tom Peters

The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators...

Tom Barrett

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

Tommy Shaw

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

Steve Wozniak

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

Steve Harvey

I don't rehearse on either of my shows, 'Family Feud' or my talk show. I never rehearse with the guests. I don't want to have any preconceived thoughts, notions, because that kills my creativity as a host and as a stand up.

Stephen Elop

One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.

Stephen Covey

The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.

Stephen Covey

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Steven Pressfield

F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I'll be back.

Susan L. Taylor

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

Sue Halpern

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.

Richard Stallman

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

Richard Stallman

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

Michael Eisner

Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.

Michael Eisner

Diversity is a great force towards creativity.

Ray Bradbury

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Ray Bradbury

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

Ray Bradbury

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

Ray Bradbury

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Ray Bradbury

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Ray Bradbury

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Ralph Allen

The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.

Rajneesh

If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.

Rajneesh

Humanity needs a new soil - the soil of freedom. Bohemianism was a reaction, a necessary reaction, but if my vision succeeds then there will be no bohemianism because there will be no so-called collective mind trying to dominate people. Then everybody will be at ease with himself. Of course, you have not to interfere with anybody, but as far as your life is concerned you have to live it on your own terms. Then only is there creativity. Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.

Rajneesh

God is not a person but creativity, not a creator but creativity.

Rajneesh

God is not repetitive; His creativity is infinite.

Rajneesh

God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been there. Maybe even the poet does not know, but he has been touched by something from the beyond.

Rajneesh

Creativity is always from the beyond.

Rajneesh

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.