Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikolai Berdyaev

Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other....

Monica Lewinsky

My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word....

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.

Mick Jagger

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Michael Porter

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

Michael Lerner

Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.

Sholem Asch

Personality is the gland of creativity.

Seth Gabel

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

Seth Gabel

The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that's constantly happening over and over again. Whether it's an actual death or just a shift in perspective, that cycle is forever continuing. As an actor and person, that's just something you have to accept.

Seth Godin

The enemy of creativity is fear.

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.

Marianne Williamson

When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

Marianne Williamson

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.

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.