Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

To me, creativity is God. But it will be better if you allow me to change the word god into godliness, because I don`t want to be misunderstood. There is no person like God, but there is tremendous energy - exploding, unending, expanding. This expanding, unending, exploding energy, this creativity, is divine.

Thomas Jefferson

If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Robert Holden

People who follow their joy discover a depth of creativity and talent that inspires the world.

Trey Anastasio

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

Trevor Nunn

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

Trey Parker

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

Tori Amos

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Rodney Mullen

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

Robin Williams

When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?

Robert Ringer

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

Robert Rodriguez

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

Robert Rodriguez

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Robert Motherwell

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Rob Halford

It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music that kills young people. We accept that some people don't like heavy metal, but we can't let them convince us that it's negative and destructive. Heavy metal is a friend that gives people great pleasure and enjoyment and helps them through hard times. “Whether there's any 'subliminal effect' from the court, I don't know, but we certainly couldn't let it interfere with our creativity.

Richard Holbrooke

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy.

Richard Dawkins

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

Richard Dawkins

Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.

Vidal Sassoon

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

Richard Bach

I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it."

Richard Bach

Fear is all the fear of some loss: "I'm going to lose something." If we declare, and if we know in our hearts, "I already have everything that I need: I have life, I have creativity, I have joy, I have nourishment. I have everything I need," and if we just say, "It doesn't depend on my having a physical body to do it," then everything opens up.

Rita Wilson

I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

Rita Mae Brown

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

Timothy Egan

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

Timothy Garton Ash

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

Timothy Leary

One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

Russell Simmons

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Romany Malco

Being able to engage my creativity in a way that makes a difference inspires me more than anything.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections.

Susan Smith

Living in process is being open to insight and encounter. Creativity is becoming intensively absorbed in the process and giving it form.

Susan Orlean

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

Susan Cain

Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.

Stuart Wilde

It is important that the female develops a reality that honors and nurtures her femininity and has an identity and creativity of her own. It is equally important that the male in the relationship endorses that creativity.