Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rollo May

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

Rollo May

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Rollo May

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Rollo May

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

Rollo May

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

Rollo May

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Rollo May

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

Rollo May

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

Rollo May

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Steve Wozniak

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Rajneesh

If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.

Rajneesh

My message, my key, my golden key to transform your energies, is creativity. Be more and more creative, and slowly slowly you will see a transformation happening of its own accord. Your mind will disappear, your body will have a totally different feel to it, and constantly you will remain aware that you are separate, that you are a pure witness.

Nolan Bushnell

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Miguel de Cervantes

Every production must resemble its author.

Miguel de Cervantes

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

John W. Gardner

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

John W. Gardner

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

John W. Gardner

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

John Romero

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

Mark Zuckerberg

Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world's people. We are all being robbed of the creativity and potential of the two-thirds of the world not yet online. Tomorrow, if we succeed, the Internet will truly represent everyone.

Theodore Roosevelt

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Theodor Reik

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Margaret Mead

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Margaret Mead

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

Margaret J. Wheatley

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

Marcus Buckingham

If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

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.