Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainn Wilson

Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go down life's path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings.

Tennessee Williams

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

Terence McKenna

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

Teddy Thompson

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

Soren Kierkegaard

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

Stefon Harris

It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow.

Stefan Zweig

But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever has tobring about a discovery or deed which will further the cause of all of humanity, no longer has his home in his native land but rather in his work.

Stefan Zweig

Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.

Tim Brown

Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations.

Tim Brown

We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.

Tim Cook

Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those. A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a sign that something is wrong when you have a VP of innovation or something. You know, put a for-sale sign on the door.

Tim Cook

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

Tim Berners-Lee

The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

Ronnie Dunn

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

Ron Carter

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Ron Ben-Israel

There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

Roger Enrico

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

Umberto Eco

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

Truman Capote

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

Travis Kalanick

In a lot of ways, it's not the money that allows you to do new things. It's the growth and the ability to find things that people want and to use your creativity to target those.

Rhonda Byrne

I don't control anything I create.

Rhonda Byrne

You create your future with the power of your intention. Intention is simply the conscious act of determining your future now. Health, harmony in relationships, happiness, money, creativity, and love will come to you in the future, based on your intentions now. Intend every day and create your future life.

Trent Reznor

To switch right into creativity usually takes a bit of time, and this came up right at that juncture where I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to work with somebody I really respect in a new medium.

Steve Vai

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Veronica Roth

Ingenuity requires creativity.

Karl Lagerfeld

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Joyce Cary

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

Oscar Wilde

To define is to limit.

Kanye West

The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.

Kanye West

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want

William Faulkner

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

Wil Wheaton

The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

Warren G. Bennis

The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.