Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Gore

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.

Charles Kettering

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

Charles Kettering

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

Charles Babbage

Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new principles or to new methods, are of quite a different order from those which are necessary for their practical application.

Bill Hicks

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

Eckhart Tolle

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

Eckhart Tolle

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

Eckhart Tolle

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

Love is a key ingredient for creativity.

Elijah Wood

You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.

Elie Wiesel

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Edward Norton

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

Bruno Bettelheim

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

Brian May

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

Brian Greene

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

Ashwin Sanghi

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

Basmah bint Saud

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

What you desire you call into being ...

Brian Tracy

The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

Brian Tracy

Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

Brian Aldiss

The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

Brian Aldiss

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

Brian Aldiss

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Brenda Ueland

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

Brenda Ueland

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Brad Paisley

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

Brad Garlinghouse

You should empower the creativity of others.

Brad Dourif

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

Jane Hirshfield

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

Jane Hirshfield

Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.

Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the audience on its feet at intermission. They stepped, strutted, stomped, romped, ran rung, hung, flung, flew, threw and played their way through 16 numbers (17 if you count the percussion encore in the lobby that stopped the departing crowd in its collective tracks). It was Blast! and it was fantastic. That said, the show is a cacophony of color and creativity a musical montage offering nearly two hours of stimuli.