Creative Quotes · Page 86

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

— Ruth St. Denis

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

— Donatella Versace

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

— Cynthia Heimel

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

— Mark Strand

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the…

— Rick Remender

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

— Ludwig von Mises

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

— Rod Serling

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

— Jim Rohn

Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we…

— Victor Papanek

Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so…

— Tavi Gevinson

I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred…

— Vera Nazarian

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third,…

— David Ogilvy

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

— David Blunkett

Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina…

— Anna Silk

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative…

— John le Carre

When you come into a creativity-driven environment, things are very different and there is the danger that a traditional managerial mind-set could…

— John Kao

So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Managing the creative process means selecting the best people and then letting them do their work. That means nurturing. It also means,…

— John Kao

Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization.…

— Teresa Amabile

The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at…

— Karan Bajaj

“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it…

— Shannon L. Alder

The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction…

— Rick Springfield

I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is…

— Henry Petroski

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

— Paulo Coelho

I don't enjoy my work and don't get creative satisfaction if I do just one project and stick to it for years.

— Upasana Singh

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I just feel so good; it feels like a very creative time for me. As far as my mind, spirit, and body,…

— Lenny Kravitz

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

— Milton H. Erickson

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.

— Warren G. Bennis

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

— Anthony Powell

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

— Thomas A. Edison

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

— Twyla Tharp

There is no room for being creative in today’s business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

— Martin Wolf

Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

— Charles Revson

A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.

— Kurt Hanks

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

— Ziggy Marley

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

— Sigmund Freud

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

— Michael Polanyi

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

— Judy Blume