Creative Quotes · Page 135

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

— Jeff Bezos

Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life…

— Ernest Holmes

We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all…

— Thomas Berry

I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

— Chris Colfer

Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect.

— Dav Pilkey

My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level…

— Sharon Salzberg

You do what you have to do to compete, and that takes you to places where you are in a relentless state…

— Pete Carroll

[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning…

— Amy Poehler

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such…

— Bong Joon-ho

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be…

— Neil Patrick Harris

Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative.

— Eric Thomas

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a…

— Juliette Lewis

When someone has too much of a thought-out idea, that can be a big obstacle to get anywhere. Because it's like [if]…

— Pontus Winnberg

I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I…

— Samantha Shannon

By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

— Ayn Rand

The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart…

— Sonia Choquette

Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.

— Deepak Chopra

The studio work that I do allows me to connect with people around the world. You can't perform live for everyone, so…

— Yanni

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

— Julian Lennon

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it…

— Orson Scott Card

This is every creative person's dream - a hobby that I'm lucky enough to get paid for.

— Stephan Pastis

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression -…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot…

— Avi Arad

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and…

— James Dyson

Despite the variety my books reflect my, perhaps foolish, tendency to place artistic above financial concerns; of enjoying the more mature themes…

— Sean Michael Wilson

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

— Kate Baldwin

I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or…

— Ian Anderson

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

— Annie Lennox

It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative…

— Alan Moore

Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent.…

— Barack Obama

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

— Anonymous

That which is creative must create itself.

— John Keats

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

— David Crabb

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman…

— Candice Olson

Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and…

— Pope John Paul II

A lot of what I know as a filmmaker is because of hockey. That's teamwork, and being able to collaborate with people,…

— Gabe Polsky

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point…

— Neville Goddard

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

— Nawal El Saadawi