Creative Quotes · Page 102

Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“… ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself Ricky Nelson (Referring to creative works, not other things)”

— Anonymous

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

— Wallace D. Wattles

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

— Leon Trotsky

I'm impressed with how the NBA, as a whole, is dressing so well. Guys are being very creative and having fun with…

— Tony Parker

I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.

— Bill Kreutzmann

Obviously with any creative project you never know how it's going to land.

— Kari Skogland

If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you…

— Christopher Peterson

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing…

— Louis Kahn

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she…

— Vera Nazarian

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the…

— Samantha Bond

I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's…

— Regina Taylor

Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the…

— David Lynch

The challenge I think at first consideration is always a mixture of the creative opportunity and the finances. From the studio perspective,…

— Hutch Parker

It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers,…

— Rinus Michels

To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease…

— John O'Donohue

I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and…

— Ansel Adams

There are two principles for creative success - one general and one definitive. The general principle is that everyone has the ability…

— Ernie J Zelinski

The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by…

— Doris Lessing

The system that keeps cosmic beings in a bullshit frame of mind of what existence is to make money off them, use…

— Giuseppe Andrews

Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it…

— Edge

... if you repeat a thought, or say a word, over and over again-not once, not twice, but dozens, hundreds, thousands of…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I would say Colin Jost is Kanye West because he takes like the creative risk a lot of times, whereas I'm like,…

— Michael Che

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

— Rita Mae Brown

Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

— Erwin McManus

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

— Henry A. Kissinger

If you're applying for a creative position, don't be afraid to get a little creative on your resume.

— Rebecca Serle

When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel…

— Josh Pais

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

— Theophilus London

I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

— Chris Hardwick

Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.

— Philip K. Dick

You don't need money to be creative. The ghetto builds champions every day.

— DJ Snake

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

— Mira Nair

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

— Yo-Yo Ma

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”

— Roy T. Bennett

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

— Teju Cole

You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like…

— Nate Dogg

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because…

— Judy Blume