Creativity Quotes · Page 241

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a model, it is rare to be given the opportunity to have creative input.

— Alex Consani

“Empty mind is the devil's workshop...and busy mind kills creativity...”

— Akansh Malik

Writer's block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise.

— Maggie Rogers

If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.

— Michael Ray

Some of the most creative ideas emerge from a swirl of chaos.

— Anonymous

“Status quo thinking is the premature rejection of deeply unfamiliar ideas; it is the enemy of originality.”

— Jen Fraser

“Art is the weapon Your imagination is the ammunition Stay dirty, and stay dangerous Create and destroy as you see fit”

— Gerard Way

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the…

— P.D. Ouspensky

We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it…

— Andy Hobsbawm

I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative…

— Gillian Flynn

I got my first Mac in 1984. I've got an Airbook, iPad, iPhone, the lot. I love that blend of technology, creativity,…

— Ben Miller

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to…

— Julia Roberts

“Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf - almost like an evangelist.”

— Simon Zingerman

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

“There’s probably no better example of the throttling of creativity than the difference between what we observe in a kindergarten classroom and…

— Madeline Levine

Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and…

— David Lynch

“You don’t understand!” she exclaimed bitterly. “That,” said his lordship, with a touch of acidity, “is a foolish accusation which lacks even…

— Georgette Heyer

Good ideas are not good enough. They need to be God ideas. Just because someone else’s methods work does not mean they…

— Phil Pringle

Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a…

— Eckhart Tolle

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation…

— James Anthony Froude

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form…

— James Russell Lowell

If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

“Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.”

— Amit Kalantri

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

— Paul Schrader

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what…

— Jerry Garcia

Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

— Christian Wiman

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Creativity, gives a great outlet for stress relief. Put all your emotions into making something beautiful.

— Anil Sinha

Now I love the act of creating a new image. When everything comes together, it feels like ecstasy. It's like a climax.

— Mario Sorrenti

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

— Anonymous

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

— Paul Cezanne

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.”

— John Scalzi

Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something.

— Sutton Foster

“Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”

— Arthur Koestler

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement of the creative process

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.

— Luke Treadaway

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

— Matthew Arnold