Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Curtis

Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

Dweezil Zappa

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

Dalai Lama

Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.

Deepak Chopra

One way to access the field is through the daily practice of silence, meditation, and non-judgment. Spending time in nature will also give you access to the qualities inherent in the field: infinite creativity, freedom, and bliss.

Deepak Chopra

Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.

Deepak Chopra

Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions-wherever the power of your attention takes you.

Deepak Chopra

Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions.

Debbie Allen

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Debbi Fields

Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.

Andy Rooney

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

Andy Stanley

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

Andre Dubus

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

Anais Nin

For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

Anais Nin

If you can't create, you destroy.

Anais Nin

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

Anne Hathaway

Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.

Anita Roddick

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

Anita Roddick

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.

Chuck Palahniuk

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Chuck Palahniuk

Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

Christopher Paolini

He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.

Doris Lessing

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Daniel Radcliffe

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Damon Albarn

There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

Cory Doctorow

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

Daphne Koller

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

Duncan Sheik

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Duncan Sheik

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

Dries van Noten

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

Douglas Coupland

You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.