Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marianne Williamson

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Marianne Williamson

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.

Marianne Williamson

There should be an expanded role in this society for every human being. I see an expanded role for the human spirit, for excellence, for virtue, and for creativity - within women, and within everyone.

Marianne Williamson

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

Marianne Williamson

We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

Melanie Klein

The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

Mason Cooley

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

Mason Cooley

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Marvin Minsky

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Martin Villeneuve

All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

Patricia Polacco

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!

Lyle Lovett

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

Louis L'Amour

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

Lorne Michaels

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

Liz Phair

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

Michael Jackson

Out of the bliss comes magic, wonderment and creativity.

Melanie Laurent

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

So many forms of creativity together in one spot. It's beautiful.

Buddy Holly

But that's not so with John. He was very much at the height of his popularity and his creativity. It's a tragedy.

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

I go to the water with a good idea and the water gives it back to me great. Half of what is totally magic in my work isn't me, and I don't say that out of humility, it's just that the water itself is this extraordinary, lyrical, poetic force and when you're working with it, it's there, it's your partner in creativity and it knows more than I do, I swear.

Howard Stern

Sirius Satellite Radio is where the excitement, creativity and energy that FM once had is gravitating to, today and tomorrow,

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.

Jim Gilmore

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

Jerry Seinfeld

For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.

Jerry Seinfeld

Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Jeffrey Eugenides

What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.

Jeff Mangum

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

James C. Collins

Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

James C. Collins

Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

James A. Michener

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

Christopher Hitchens

The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism ... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.