Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Altucher

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

Jacques Maritain

Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.

Jacque Fresco

Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways

Henry A. Kissinger

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

Helmut Jahn

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

Helmut Jahn

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Hedda Hopper

TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

Henry David Thoreau

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Manmohan Singh

The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.

Man Ray

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Mandy Moore

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

Milarepa

Although work was, and still is, considered an important part of Osho's vision, in the last years of his life, he began to emphasize creativity as a way of expressing and sharing the fruits of our meditation.

Margaret Wise Brown

there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.

Joseph Badaracco

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.

Josef Albers

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

Kevin Spacey

There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.

Lupe Fiasco

It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.

The Life and Creativity of an American Artist, John Pike,

Laurie Metcalf

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

Lauryn Hill

When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

John Travolta

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

John Ralston Saul

In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.

John Ralston Saul

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

Thomas Armstrong

I’m alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

Natalie Goldberg

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

Natalie Goldberg

Creativity is no big deal.

Natalie Goldberg

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

Taylor Swift

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.

Talib Kweli

My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.

Swizz Beatz

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

Peter Bart

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.