I'm trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities. — Lee Kun-hee Copy Share Image
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people. — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile. — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Thomas Berry calls the Ecozoic Era, a time when we recognize the imperative of caring for the planet as a means of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away. — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression… — Karin Dreijer Andersson Copy Share Image
The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A… — Paul A. Kaufman Copy Share Image
The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that… — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist. — Common Copy Share Image
An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid… — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image
I'm just surrounded by awesome funny folks and really creative people. I'm learning, every day. There's not a day that I step… — John Cena Copy Share Image
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I am a creative artist. I have the ability to radiate. Lifting my arms above me, I soar above the earth. Lowering… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
Weave your creative threads in the dark and then when the sun hits them, they will glisten with intricate beauty. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When people in my generation started to write, we did not actually have much of a movie industry, much of a theater… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words. — Roger Verge Copy Share Image
