Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chogyam Trungpa

There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

Chogyam Trungpa

People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

Chinua Achebe

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

Chin-Ning Chu

By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.

Cheryl Richardson

Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.

Cheryl Richardson

I am a master at setting boundaries that protect my time, energy, creativity, and emotional well-being.

Chaim Potok

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Charles Scott

Creativity is great-but not in accounting.

Charles Revson

Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

Beyonce Knowles

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

Edward Hirsch

She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that I had the passion and the enthusiasm and the creativity to become a poet, but that what I was writing was not poetry because I was just expressing my feelings and I wasn't try to make anything.

Edward Gibbon

bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

Edith Schaeffer

If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.

Edith Schaeffer

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

David Hume

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

David Duchovny

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

David Brin

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

August Wilson

I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.

Audre Lorde

Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

Audre Lorde

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

Arthur Peacocke

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

Arnold Bennett

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

David Rockefeller

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

Kurt Vonnegut

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

We're going to take all steps necessary to protect the creativity and innovation of our employees.

Caitlin Moran

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

Carl Jung

Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

Carl Jung

There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . . . the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.