Creativity Quotes · Page 229

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

— Albert Einstein

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

— Jaime Lerner

“Rather than give up your creativity, invest in tools that makes you work faster and better”

— Fausat Omolara Ayinla

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

— Franz Marc

Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

— Deepak Chopra

The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

— Oswald Chambers

Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.

— Pharrell Williams

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the…

— Semir Zeki

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure…

— Christian Wiman

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to…

— Alexis Korner

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind…

— Brian May

Drawing will never go out of date because, you know, you've still got to have the imaginative thought. You've got to react…

— Grayson Perry

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you…

— David Ogilvy

“Your original wonder must be recaptured; just like a child like sense of wonder, where nothing is known and everything becomes a…

— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be…

— Stephen King

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this…

— Anonymous

Commitment is the ultimate assertion of human freedom. It releases all the energy you possess and enables you to take quantum leaps…

— Deepak Chopra

“A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms…

— Deb Margolis

Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created…

— Lev S. Vygotsky

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

— John Stuart Mill

I'm a bat. All my greatest, creative ideas come at night. So I hardly ever sleep.

— Jessica White

“Open your creative heart like an unfurling flower and petal and share your exquisiteness.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

— Lisa See

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

— Peter Senge

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Thomas Edison is often said to have advised, “To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”

— Leonard Mlodinow

Be beautiful and you are doing your part to create a more beautiful world.

— Bryant McGill

Creating content and never being afraid to try something new have been my two hallmarks.

— Willam Belli

“To live a creative life we must forget our fear of being wrong.”

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

— Criss Jami

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

— Ken Robinson

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

— Max Beckmann

“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

— Sonnia Kemmer

“Not seeing the “Original Self (the true self)”, but seeing something else; that is called maya (illusionary vision).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“You are either creating consciously or creating by egoic default.”

— Deborah "Atianne" Wilson