Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

Mark Zuckerberg

Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world's people. We are all being robbed of the creativity and potential of the two-thirds of the world not yet online. Tomorrow, if we succeed, the Internet will truly represent everyone.

Mignon McLaughlin

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Nolan Bushnell

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

Nolan Bushnell

One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.

Nolan Bushnell

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

Nolan Bushnell

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Miguel de Cervantes

Every production must resemble its author.

Miguel de Cervantes

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

Theodore Roosevelt

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Theodor Reik

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Margaret Mead

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Margaret Mead

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

Margaret J. Wheatley

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

Marcus Buckingham

If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

Michael Eisner

Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.

Michael Eisner

Diversity is a great force towards creativity.

Lily Cole

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

LeVar Burton

All literature is political.

Leatrice Eiseman

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

Leatrice Eiseman

While PANTONE 18-3224 Radiant Orchid, the captivating 2014 color of the year, encouraged creativity and innovation, Marsala enriches our mind, body and soul, exuding confidence and stability,

Larry Wall

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

Pablo Picasso

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

Pablo Picasso

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Paul Schrader

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

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!

Seth Godin

I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.

Seth Godin

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.