Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity… — Jane Badler Copy Share Image
Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books:… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process. — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
What happens at the beginning of any creative process? Nothing! Creativity requires that we create space and wait for something to emerge. — Otto Scharmer Copy Share Image
A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
When I first came in the NBA League you were slotted into a position and you did what you were slotted to… — Shane Battier Copy Share Image
We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
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I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Obsessing about one medium versus another is a waste of energy - it is the cultivation and management of ideas, and the… — John Hegarty Copy Share Image
Never change your originality for the sake of others because in this world, no one can play your role better than you,… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of… — Seth Gabel Copy Share Image
I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered,… — Xun Kuang Copy Share Image
People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“English is like a poetic extension of myself. It holds my creativity and imagination in blissful and inspiring captivity. Though I consider… — Storm Princeholm Copy Share Image
When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I work off of my early demos. I'll keep adding on top of that, but I usually gravitate towards whatever that original… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
The best way to become more creative is to create nothing. By this, I mean that you should return to zero point.… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal… — Chenjerai Hove Copy Share Image
“The opposite of creativity is compliance to external imposition, having for one reason or another to bend to the will of another.” — Keith Oatley Copy Share Image
All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a… — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
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Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I don't spend a lot of time watching my performances after the fact. I suck at playing video games, but I'm a… — Jennifer Hale Copy Share Image
![“I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers…” quote by August Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdb/august-wilson-3646_ability_i-think-that-as-a-playwright-if-i-detail_2244548.jpg)
![“It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential. [check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you.” quote by James A. Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a78/james-a-owen-12781_bragging_it-ain-t-bragging-if-you-ve-done-it-ther_2236180.jpg)
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