Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Plant

It's part of me to get off on those moments where... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit.

Satoru Iwata

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life,

Sasha Alexander

I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.

Wendell Pierce

We don't eat to live, we live to eat because that's a part of the creativity of the day.

Walter Pater

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.

Walter Pater

Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.

W. Somerset Maugham

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Yoko Ono

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

Yoko Ono

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

Yoko Ono

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

Yoko Ono

It's better to dance than to march through life.

Wynn Bullock

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Creativity is the firing of my soul.

William O. Douglas

These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence.

Robert McKee

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

Robert McKee

The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies. So we deliberately put obstacles in our path - barriers that will inspire us. We disciple ourselves as to what to do, while we're boundless as to how to do it.

Robert McKee

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

Robert Greenwald

People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.

Robert H. Schuller

Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.

Robert H. Schuller

The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

Robert Baden-Powell

Leave it better than you found it.

Robert Anton Wilson

Creativity has a touch of the bizarre

Richard Florida

Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.

Richard Florida

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

Richard Florida

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Richard Florida

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

Robert Delaunay

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Richard Rohr

Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

Tabatha Coffey

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

Rollo May

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

Rollo May

Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.

Rollo May

Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

Rollo May

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.