Creativity and talent are born from the womb of sadness

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

— Ray Bradbury

“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole…

— Andrei Amalrik

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

— John Lasseter

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You don't get lucky. You create lucky.

— Robin Sharma

By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

— Deepak Chopra

“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of…

— Joshua Foer

If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

— Keith Barry

“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

— Sonnia Kemmer

Creativity is like chasing chickens.

— Christoph Niemann

It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces…

— David Bohm

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you…

— Amy Landecker

Create an environment for people to fail, to learn, and to grow. Their creativity and productivity will increase.

— Anonymous