Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Bart

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

Penn Jillette

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

Marissa Mayer

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'

Marissa Mayer

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

Marie Antoinette

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Mechai Viravaidya

Take No as a question.

Max Planck

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

Maurice Saatchi

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

Max Ernst

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

Matthew Sweet

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

Maya Beiser

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

Maya Lin

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

Maya Lin

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Madeleine L'Engle

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

Madeleine L'Engle

But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.

John F. Kennedy

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

Jonathan Ive

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

Jonathan Ive

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Jonas Salk

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Jonah Lehrer

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

Jonah Lehrer

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Jon Stewart

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.

Jon McGregor

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Joyce Carol Oates

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

Joyce Carol Oates

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

Justine Bateman

Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.

Judith Orloff

If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.

Rabindranath Tagore

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

Peter Weir

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.