Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. Whitney Brown

I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

Adrienne Rich

I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

Adam Shankman

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

Adam Leipzig

The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

Abraham Maslow

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

Abraham Maslow

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

Abraham Maslow

The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'

Heather Kent

We often forget about creativity with a little 'c'. You don't have to be Mozart or Einstein. Creativity can just be about the day-to-day stuff that makes life better.

David Bohm

It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.

David Karp

I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

David Karp

I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

David Ben-Gurion

It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.

We are shifting from an economy that is industrially focused to one that relies on creativity for the consumer.

Chris Hardwick

In the end, all that time I spent in the 'Star Wars' universe fostered galaxies of creativity and made me a better person here on Earth, because it taught me that everyone counts. That's why I can sincerely and with a straight face say: 'May the Force be with you.'

Daphne Guinness

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

Dan Miller

In today’s work arena, creativity may be more of an asset than competence.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.

Orson Scott Card

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.