Creative Quote by Teresa Amabile

Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live…

— Donald Trump

People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

— Richard Saul Wurman

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.

— John Sculley

The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other…

— Roger von Oech

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

— Teresa Amabile

There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in…

— Gary Taubes

There is no room for being creative in today’s business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

— Martin Wolf

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn…

— Oscar Isaac

“Creative people have to be fundamentally egoistic. This may sound pompous, but it happens to be the truth. People who live their lives watching…

— Haruki Murakami

Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all…

— Iris Apfel

Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.

— Henry Rollins