Creative Quotes · Page 101

I've always had the mindset that you've got to be creative and not moan or whinge at what you're given.

— Eddie Howe

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

— Bill Gates

I would never undermine a person's interpretation of a creative work.

— Anohni

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

— Anonymous

Anytime you're the creative force behind something and in front of the camera - we're not complaining, but it is an avalanche…

— Billy Eichner

Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.

— Ruth Sawyer

The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.

— Huey Lewis

The Spirit of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

— John G. Lake

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen.…

— Joseph Campbell

In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to…

— Barbara Hulanicki

I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative…

— Gary Shteyngart

The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We…

— Pete Sessions

All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for…

— Ava DuVernay

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I…

— Kim Smith

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt…

— Carolyn Mackler

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably…

— Bob Balaban

When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for…

— Rajneesh

What is creativity? Having spent my life in one creative endeavor after another, I can tell you it's not something magical or…

— Dewitt Jones

Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or…

— Anne Lamott

Just getting to the point where we are now with 'To Dust' movie - where we've raised the money, put the crew…

— Alessandro Nivola

Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel…

— Edward de Bono

Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the…

— Surya Das

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they know me…

— Nawal El Saadawi

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves…

— Thomas Merton

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

— Grandmaster Flash

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

— Kimon Nicolaides

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

— Patton Oswalt

When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.

— Chip Conley

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

— Carl Jung

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's…

— Warren Cuccurullo

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

— Anne Stevenson

“Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed.”

— Amit Kalantri

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one…

— Sylvia Plath

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

— Anita Roddick

When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways.

— SZA

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task…

— Rollo May

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

— Joyce Meyer

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

— Ken Burns

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

— Casey Neistat

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

— Eddie Izzard