Creativity Quotes
|
|
The original is unfaithful to the translation. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production. (Quote by - Georges-louis Leclerc Buffon)
The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else. (Quote by - Harold R McAlindon)
Love is the most powerful stimulus package. Love stimulates belief, creativity and action. (Quote by - @Iconic88)
For me, it's the way I view the kids, the way I get them to engage in what I'm doing, the way I get them to use their imaginations. To get them to be creative, kind of like myself. I like to explore, I like to manipulate, I like to look at things in different ways. I think if you can get kids to do that, then you're truly creative, and they can become creative also. (Quote by - Cheryl Miller)
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. (Quote by - Charles Du Bos)
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. (Quote by - Sylvia Plath)
It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create. (Quote by - John Saxe)
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. (Quote by - Katharine Butler Hathaway)
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. (Quote by - Howard Aiken)
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Quote by - Anna Freud)
As CCO, it's my job to make the whole company .. a part of the creative community. A core group makes up the 'experience creation team.' It's their job to infiltrate the rest of the organization. Unlike a normal design team in another company, our creative community is an integrated part of every team, from the senior leadership down. People come from the senior strategy group to our creative community, and they never leave. So the community just keeps growing. (Quote by - Jim Kunevicious)
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. (Quote by - Gail Sheehy)
Think outside of the box. Your creativity is not found in your comfort zone. (Quote by - John Di Lemme)
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm. (Quote by - Mary Henle)
Creative thinking sets us apart from animals. Persistence, bold actions, reckless abandon in thought and dream - these things I breathe harder for. (Quote by - Joseph Hummel)
You can pretty much mix combos any way you like, and it is this creative fighting which gives the gamer flexibility. That was one of our ultimate visions: that gamers could be creative with their moves. If this works, then we're really on to something. (Quote by - David Perry)
I thought it was fun to be given [three] things and build the whole movie around it. People think creativity is being able to think about crazy things to do, but I think creativity is being able to take the limitations you have and do something creative. (Quote by - Mark Hedengren)
Creative ideas reside in people's minds but are trapped by fear or rejection. Create a judgment free environment and you'll unleash a torrent of creativity. (Quote by - Contributed by: Maria Green)
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling(Quote by - Madeleine L'Engle)
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. (Quote by - Julia Cameron)
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
For more than three decades, Ferguson has been considered the 'gold standard' of strategic excellence. With this new approach to creative management - one unlike any other we know of in the healthcare-marketing arena - we hope to show both clients and prospective talent that Ferguson is focused on and committed to proving to be an innovator and leader in creative excellence, as well. These new positions, by their very existence, differentiate Ferguson from the norm, and signify our unyielding drive to be innovative leaders on every front in healthcare communications. (Quote by - Rich Levy)
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity. (Quote by - Mary Garden)
All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists. (Quote by - Marcel Duchamp)
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. (Quote by - Robert Flaherty)
Today we can build rich interactive sites [with] ASP.Net and Community Server, but it's time-consuming with handoffs between creative and development. Our creative team uses Macs and Windows today but they would prefer to use only Windows. If Microsoft can execute on their vision of simplifying the process of building rich interactive applications, they'll get adoption. (Quote by - Rob Howard)
Don't play what's there, play what's not there. (Quote by - Miles Davis)
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. (Quote by - Charles Brower)
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. (Quote by - Edward Albee)
People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do. (Quote by - Robert Greenwald)
It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique. (Quote by - Shania Twain)
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. (Quote by - Gerald Holton)
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. (Quote by - Brian Aldiss)
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. (Quote by - Sophia Loren)
There is new research showing that our creative potential increases with age. Our creativity is a product of our inner and outer experience, and as we get older, we have all kinds of experience to draw on. Also, research tells us that creativity brings energy, vitality and good health. (Quote by - Sandra Cusack)
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. (Quote by - Aesop)
Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. (Quote by - Alfonso X)
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. (Quote by - Rollo May)
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth. (Quote by - Bernice Fitz-Gibbon)
This was a challenging project for us but we believed in the creative and wanted to be a part of it, .. It was great experience and we all got into the creative process. In the end it became very collaborative. You don't get a lot of opportunities in this business to do something that's expansive and allows you to flex a lot of creative muscles at once but this was one of those projects. (Quote by - Paul Goldman)
The recognition and understanding of the need was the primary condition of the creative act. When people feel they had to express themselves for originality for its own sake, that tends not to be creativity. Only when you get into the problem and the problem becomes clear, can creativity take over. (Quote by - Charles Eames)
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. (Quote by - Edward De Bono)
Ideas are the root of creation. (Quote by - Ernest Dimnet)
Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five(Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. (Quote by - Sholem Asch)
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. (Quote by - Robert Evans)
Creativity is to think more efficiently. (Quote by - Pierre Reverdy)
Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are. (Quote by - Frank Goble)
I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, "What about your creative juices?" Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it. (Quote by - James Caan)
It's definitely going to be creative space. It will have a loft feel, with hardwood floors and high ceilings, catering to small creative firms that are being reborn downtown. (Quote by - Andy Murphy)
Creativity means making perfect mistakes.. of course on client's projects.. (Quote by - Vijayraj Bhatt)
We're hoping that we'll have a slew of developers coming in with creative projects to intensively develop this site. It's a tight site, so we're looking for creative solutions. (Quote by - Arthur Mullen)
Games people are creative people, .. Creative people are all different. So, you have to be all things to all men. Fortunately I have a creative design background so I can understand where they're coming from. (Quote by - Ian Livingstone)
It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.". (Quote by - Eric Clapton)
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. (Quote by - Al Gore)
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups. (Quote by - Charles Browder)
The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!(Quote by - Pierre Cardin)
That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school. You're creative in high school and college. And then when you get to the league, this position, the more mobile quarterbacks, we have a tendency to want to become traditional and nervous and panicky in how we want to call plays and put guys in position to make plays. (Quote by - Kordell Stewart)
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Creativity is the result of the choice to shut out the screaming world around you, in order to precisely document your mind's relayed message. The gift is not the message itself; rather it is in the means of its discovery. (Quote by - summer jeirles)
Your creative work is a gift to the world. Give us what you've got so we can experience your contribution. (Quote by - Lorrin L. Lee)
I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense. (Quote by - Winston Graham)
It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity. (Quote by - Mohammad Khatami)
People, Art, Creativity, Passion, and Purpose…That's my life. (Quote by - Rodel Natividad Casio)
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. (Quote by - R. I. Fitzhenry)
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker. (Quote by - Voltaire)
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. (Quote by - Isaac Newton)
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting. (Quote by - Edward de Bono)
Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it. (Quote by - Chalres Chic Thompson)
These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the city, we'll be able to find creative solutions. (Quote by - Bob DuPuy)
Seeing the bigger picture and having a creative mindset often result in unexpected and innovative solutions. (Quote by - Moe Green)
It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative. (Quote by - David Allen)
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. (Quote by - Clement Greenberg)
Begin with another's to end with your own. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. (Quote by - Daisaku Ikeda)
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes. (Quote by - Ross Perot)
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. (Quote by - Lou Dorfsman)
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. (Quote by - Tom Barrett)
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. (Quote by - Gilbert George)
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Quote by - Frank Capra)
She explored creativity in a lot of ways with the children. She wanted to bring out their innate creativity, not a rubber stamp. (Quote by - Logan Payne)
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. (Quote by - De Chateaubriand)
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. (Quote by - Mary Lou Cook)
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. (Quote by - Robert Cecil Day-lewis)
There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area. (Quote by - Kim Gordon)
Some people see things and ask Why? I dream things which never were and askWhy not? (Quote by - Ketaki Bhave)
fantasies awakens our creative side; heightens our senses; and sets forth our dreams to come true. (Quote by - debbie nicholson)
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
We intend the Creative New York study to be the catalyst for policymakers, creative professionals and local advocates to discuss the importance of sustaining the City's creative economy. Collectively, we need to find strategies that will not only impact the quality of life of those New Yorkers who currently comprise the creative economy, but also promote further development in a sector that has been a vital part of the city's history and culture. (Quote by - Robin Keegan)
The creative mind creates many things, even obstacles. (Quote by - Mike Metevelis)
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
The acknowledgment of Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates by Time Magazine reflects the growing importance of philanthropy in society. The field of philanthropy is enduring a spectacular change fueled mostly by growth in size -- we have witnessed a 19% growth in the number of foundations in America during the past ten years -- and character. New and novel initiatives rise daily creating, in many respects, a time of optimism and creativity. Philanthropy is unique in that its resources go to creating long-term solutions and provides the opportunity and mandate to explore new creative solutions in ways not appropriate for public dollars. I think we have only just begun to see just how far this renewed interest in philanthropy is going to take us. (Quote by - Steve Gunderson)
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? (Quote by - Charles Du Bos)
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. (Quote by - Tony Bennett)
The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen. (Quote by - Carl Ally)
