Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally…

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give…

— Lorraine Hansberry

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water…

— Nina Fedoroff

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments.…

— Mike A. Males

Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming…

— Gustave Flaubert

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's…

— John Hurt

Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce…

— Astra Taylor

It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production, inventiveness, benevolence,…

— Pamela Geller

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

— Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the…

— Mark Pagel

It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same…

— Philip Glass

There is something reassuring about British-made products and their inventiveness and ingenuity, their creative spirit and eccentricity and their British wit and charm.

— David Linley

“This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge,…

— Walter Isaacson