I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique. — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Curiosity, imagination, inventiveness expand with use, like muscles,and atrophy with neglect.” — Paul Gruchow Copy Share Image
American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort. — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high. — Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Copy Share Image
Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“People who don’t construe their life and don’t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
“Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines… — Amy Dacyczyn Copy Share Image
The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
The seraph looked up, and pain sliced through my head as our eyes met, almost blinding me. "I honor you. You can… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I absolutely treasure this uniqueness, this brilliant originative impression, that I have surrounded within my imaginative curiosity. I'm gonna prevail and continue… — D.L. Lewis Copy Share Image
What characteristics are most important in creative workers? One quality you need is inventiveness. You need to be able to take whatever… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront… — Mike A. Males Copy Share Image
“This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create. — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production,… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
There is something reassuring about British-made products and their inventiveness and ingenuity, their creative spirit and eccentricity and their British wit and… — David Linley Copy Share Image
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent.… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mother of inventiveness. And you thought you were creative.. — Marv Stark Copy Share Image
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words. — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float…are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Now, inventiveness and empathy, those qualities, if they're together in the same person, you've got an entrepreneurial genius. But they do tend… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image