Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Vargas Llosa

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Marilyn Monroe

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

Nikki Sixx

If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.

Nikki Sixx

Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat....If you keep going long enough you will always get back to where you started from. That is when you have lived a full life. That is the artist's path.

Nikki Giovanni

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

Nicki Minaj

A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.

Nicki Minaj

As a designer, you always take facets of different people and you mix them together with your own thoughts and information and creativity and passion.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity...when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos -and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

John W. Gardner

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

John W. Gardner

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

John W. Gardner

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

John Romero

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

Nicole Kidman

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

Nicholas Lea

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

Petra Kelly

I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and infusing the anti-nuclear and peace movements with a vitality and creativity never seen before.

Pharrell Williams

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.

Pharrell Williams

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

Peter Drucker

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

Edward Weston

The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause, the life within the outer form. Recording unfelt facts, acquired by rule, results in sterile inventory. To see the Thing Itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism - the casual noting of the superficial phase, a transitory mood.

Edward de Bono

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

Edward de Bono

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all...

Edward de Bono

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

Edward de Bono

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

Edward de Bono

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

Edward de Bono

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Edward de Bono

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Edward de Bono

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.