Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Hyneman

Duct tape is not a perfect solution to anything. But with a little creativity, in a pinch, it's an adequate solution to just about everything.

We have repositioned ourselves in a fiercely competitive global economy. Creativity is the key word.

Anton Chekhov

Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

Baltasar Gracian

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Arianna Huffington

You can't manage creativity. You need to manage for creativity. You need to create the space for it to emerge.

Arianna Huffington

Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.

Diane Ackerman

The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.

Diane Ackerman

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

Derrick Jensen

A language Older Than Words

Demi Lovato

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Demetri Martin

My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.

Daniel H. Pink

Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.

Daniel H. Pink

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

Daniel H. Pink

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Daniel Goleman

Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

Bob Dylan

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Billy Collins

Bugs Bunny is my muse.

I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

Unused creativity is not benign.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

There is no creativity without vulnerability.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Brandy Norwood

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.

Antonio Porchia

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Bruce Lee

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

Dee Hock

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There is no end to the creativity, ingenuity, and tenacity of those who look for reasons to criticize. They cannot seem to release their grip on grudges. They gossip and find fault with others. They nurse wounds for decades, taking every opportunity to tear down and demean others. This is not pleasing to the Lord, 'for where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work' (James 3:16).

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.