Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal. — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Thought is creative. Be mindful of where your attention is, because the universe doesn't know the difference. It only knows where your… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
The creativity inherent in life is the counterbalance to tragedy. It affirms our belief that life is a good thing and provides… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
Everything you do in life or experience in life gives inspiration for the creative process. But it also depends ultimately on what… — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I have a binging imagination and thus a mental hoarding problem. What I need to do is host an estate sale in… — Stephen Stokes Copy Share Image
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“Many calls to adventure are puzzles waiting to be solved. Anyone can apply, but the price of admission is paid in imagination.… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you… — Aubrey McClendon Copy Share Image
It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Creating something that makes me think of hanging out with my friends? That felt like the most natural thing in the world. — Brian Quinn Copy Share Image
“A dream is a seed. Vision plants it. Imagination nurtures growth. Opportunities create blooms. Thoughts become things!” — Donna McGoff Copy Share Image
“I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen,… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must… — Marco Bizzarri Copy Share Image
When they say 'jazz,' I'm thinking of a word called 'the creative process.' It intersects every vein and tributary, avenue, path, that… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
“SOWING LIGHTNING Seize Bolts of lightning from the sky And plant them in fields of life. They will grow like tender sprouts… — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
“Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.” — Rolf Smith Copy Share Image
I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do.… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual.… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“At some point, I'd like to have an origina l idea. And I'd like to be fancied, or maybe loved even, but… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Your Life is always a result of your thoughts about it-including your obviously creative thought that you seldom get what you choose. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“By stepping out of our mental and physical cages, we can rediscover the joy, creativity, and vitality that come from living as… — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can… — Thomas J. Katz Copy Share Image
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable. — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
I am somebody who has discipline in my life but I personally don't feel that there should be a lot of structure… — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
“Things have been, says the legal mind, and so we are here. The creative mind says we are here because things have… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
“The standards for horror fiction should be no less than those for 'serious literary' fiction in which originality of concept, depth of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
