Famous Quotes & Sayings

That '70s Show is one of our longest-running hit comedies. The show's success is definitely a testament to the creativity and dedication put forth each week by the talented cast, outstanding writers and producers and the great crew. There are a lot of things about the '70s we'd like to forget--especially those involving polyester--but this series has been a wonderful look back at this most memorable decade.

Billy Corgan

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Bill Bradley

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Jeff Zucker

I wondered if I would find the next few years as personally fulfilling as the first four I have spent as the president of NBC News. I also found myself missing the opportunity for the kind of creativity I've had in previous jobs.

Bill Clinton

We must protect our citizens' privacy -- the bulwark of personal liberty, the safeguard of individual creativity.

Jay Inslee

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

Carla Hall

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

Bryan Cranston

Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.

James Dyson

It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.

Jarvis Cocker

If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, Internet is pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"

Jarvis Cocker

It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a lot of it comes from the unconscious. So if you’re always checking your email or updating your Instagram profile, you’re not just looking out the window, daydreaming. You’ve got to let the subconscious in – that’s my main message to the world.

Jarvis Cocker

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

Jane Badler

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Ethan Suplee

I think about the period of, like, the '70s and early '80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there was no CGI or anything like that and people had to get super creative. And then, you know, when you've got somebody who can paint you any picture on a computer and you get hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie, its almost like the creativity diminishes somewhat.

Ethan Zuckerman

Creativity is an import-export business.

Ernest Becker

The road to creativity passes...

Ernest Becker

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Gary Busey

Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.

Christina Aguilera

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Christina Aguilera

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Christian Dior

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Christian Louboutin

If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

Gertrude Stein

It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

Gretchen Rubin

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

Georges St-Pierre

Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement.

Georges St-Pierre

My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better. He can’t transform negatives into positives. He can’t open his world to creativity and invention, or even progress.

Herman Melville

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.

Herman Melville

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.

Herman Melville

As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.

Henry David Thoreau

We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.

Henry David Thoreau

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Jill Scott

I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.