Creative Quotes · Page 101

Who has time to be creative when you're buried under mountains of emails? Or to dedicate hours to one task without interruption?

— Randi Zuckerberg

That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.

— Powers Boothe

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

— David Crabb

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

— Bertrand Russell

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

— Chris Hardwick

You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep [your] character interesting.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over…

— Joel Osteen

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

— Twyla Tharp

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are…

— John W. Gardner

Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving,…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday…

— Denise Linn

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't…

— Andy Hertzfeld

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just…

— Steve Jobs

“It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions that seem utterly different,…

— William Plomer

When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing…

— Caio Fonseca

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the…

— Eric Cantona

Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something…

— James Newton Howard

The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that…

— Theodore Levitt

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us…

— Banksy

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie.…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for…

— Eric Hoffer

There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision…

— Rebecca Goldstein

How can you be afraid to feel? Isn't fear a feeling? If you're feeling fear, you've felt one of the most negative…

— Bashar al-Assad

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

— Nate Silver

If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

— Jesse Ventura

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just…

— Moran Atias

Whenever I am making stuff, I got a thing in the back of my mind: 'Oh, this would be so perfect for'…

— Flying Lotus

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

— George Edward Woodberry

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

— China Mieville

People are generally badly advised when they're starting out in the creative field.

— Julian Lennon

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

— Amanda Palmer

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised…

— Edward de Bono

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

— Robert J. Shiller

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't think anybody in our business is creative. What we do is copy something better than the next person.

— Henry Siegel

It’s critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.

— Tim Brown

Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.

— Tim Brown

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

— Dan Brown

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and…

— Garth Hudson