Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Sparks

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

Mitchell Hurwitz

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

Mitchell Hurwitz

If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.

Maria Canals Barrera

A good smell puts me in a great mood and even inspires my creativity.

Mark Victor Hansen

Entrepreneurs have two basic assets: their creativity and their relationships.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Nathaniel Branden

It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

Naomi Watts

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Nadine Gordimer

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

Mitt Romney

Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

R. Buckminster Fuller

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

Judd Apatow

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

Judd Apatow

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Today's a great time to be any creative type of person, I think, and in just about every aspect of creativity, this generation is going to blow away every generation ever. Because we're the first ones with the Internet. I can get together with some friends, shoot a movie, cut it on my laptop at home, and then put it online. We don't have to listen to anyone.

Leonardo da Vinci

I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Lily Cole

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

LeVar Burton

All literature is political.

Leatrice Eiseman

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Leatrice Eiseman

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Larry Wall

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

Pablo Picasso

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

Pablo Picasso

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Paul Schrader

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

Oscar Niemeyer

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Oprah Winfrey

I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.

Marcel Duchamp

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

Marcel Duchamp

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Marc Almond

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

Ken Robinson

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

Ken Robinson

We get educated out of creativity.