Creativity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
-- Aaron Copland -
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
-- Aaron Siskind -
Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.
-- Aaron Swartz -
It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.
-- Abby Wambach -
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika -
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.
-- Abdul Kalam -
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.
-- Abdul Kalam -
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
-- Abraham Maslow -
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
-- Adam Braun -
I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know.
-- Adam Fuss -
The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.
-- Adam Leipzig -
Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
-- Agnes de Mille -
Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
-- Ai Weiwei -
Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.
-- Ai Weiwei -
It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
-- Aimee Mullins -
The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.
-- Akio Morita -
From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
-- Akio Morita -
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
-- Akio Morita -
I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
-- Akio Morita -
There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
-- Akio Morita -
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
-- Akio Morita -
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
-- Al Gore -
Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.
-- Al Hirschfeld -
The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.
-- Al Seckel -
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
-- Alan Alda -
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
-- Alan Alda -
If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.
-- Alan Alda -
Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
-- Alan Arkin -
The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.
-- Alan Cohen -
The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
-- Alan Cohen -
If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
-- Alan Cohen -
Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.
-- Alan Cohen -
The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.
-- Alan Plater -
Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked ideas have no value until they are implemented.
-- Alan Robinson -
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
-- Albert Camus -
In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
-- Albert Camus -
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
-- Albert Einstein -
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
-- Albert Einstein -
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
-- Albert Einstein -
Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
-- Albert Einstein -
Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
-- Albert Einstein -
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
-- Albert Einstein -
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein -
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
-- Albert Einstein -
The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
-- Albert Einstein -
The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine. We disown our passion, our creativity, and our sexuality. Eventually the Earth itself becomes a baneful place. I remember being told by a medicine woman in the Amazon, “Do you know why they are really cutting down the rain forest? Because it is wet and dark and tangled and feminine.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.
-- Alec Soth -
If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?
-- Alec Soth -
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.
-- Alethea Kontis -
Shift your frame of reference. Realise that all you see around you, Âthe reality we perceiveÂ, is a small stage upon which you act, and within it is an inner spaciousness that is infinite. Let's now explore the infinite.
-- Alex Bennett -
Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.
-- Alex Bogusky -
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
-- Alex Grey -
I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
-- Alex Grey -
You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well. And when the mystic eye is open and sees that, a person is forever changed !
-- Alex Grey -
Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.
-- Alex Kozinski -
To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.
-- Alex Steffen -
A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the line is going to move forward.
-- Alexander Wang -
I am honoured to be a part of H&M's designer collaborations. The work with their team is an exciting, fun process. They are very open to pushing boundaries and to set a platform for creativity. This will be a great way for a wider audience to experience elements of the Alexander Wang brand and lifestyle.
-- Alexander Wang -
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
-- Alfred Adler -
But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ....
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
-- Alice Tisdale Hobart -
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
-- Alice Walker -
The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.
-- Alison Bechdel -
When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.
-- Alison Moyet -
It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.
-- Allan Bloom -
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.
-- Allan Bloom -
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
-- Allan Bloom -
No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.
-- Alton Brown -
Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
Fostering your sense of creativity can give you feelings of freedom, delight and passion. It can help you see your life in a new light and help you to tackle situations that you thought were hopeless. When you express yourself through creative action you find gifts such as: happiness, self worth, healing, and inner joy.
-- Ami McKay -
Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.
-- Amit Goswami -
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.
-- Amy Chua -
Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. That joy that comes when you do something you love. That small voice that tells you, 'I like this. Do this again. You are good at it. Keep going.' That is the juicy stuff that lubricates our lives and helps us feel less alone in the world.
-- Amy Poehler -
Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.
-- Amy Waldman
