Quotes about creativity
creativity commitment passion
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
creativity names consciousness
By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness. Rollo May
creativity immortality yearning
Creativity is a yearning for immortality Rollo May
creativity artist creating
... 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
creativity creative able
By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death. Rollo May
creativity something-new process
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Rollo May
creativity expression people
The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves. Rollo May
creativity creating world
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world. Rollo May
creativity passion childhood
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. Rollo May
creativity imagination creative
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. Rollo May
creativity mean heart
What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings. Rollo May
creativity thinking creative
The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators... Tom Peters
creativity opportunity growth
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. Tom Barrett
creativity people tools
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. Steve Jobs
creativity mean thinking
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. Steve Jobs
creativity artist best-job
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. Steve Jobs
creativity sea mind
Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity. Sri Chinmoy
creativity campaigns levels
Absent the rapid mobilization of climate advocates at every level - and the pooling of all their energy, creativity, and resources into a coordinated, no-holds-barred campaign - we will soon be crossing the threshold into climate hell. Ross Gelbspan
creativity judging doe
You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow. Ross Lovegrove
creativity economy written
Written reports stifle creativity. Ross Perot
creativity technology innovation
Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace. Ron Kind
creativity thinking patterns
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it. Rupert Sheldrake
creativity men pygmalion
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women. Zoe Kazan
creativity motherhood ideas
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd. Zadie Smith