Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.

Carlos Castaneda

It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Aaron Swartz

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Charlotte Bronte

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

Russell Hancock

We have repositioned ourselves in a fiercely competitive global economy. Creativity is the key word.

Herbie Hancock

The one thing that we should stick to is to figure out how to become better human beings, but in order to do that we have to go to the second level which is to work on defining the palette of what a better human being is made of, and creativity is one of them.

Brian Eno

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

Brian Eno

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Bret Easton Ellis

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.

Carol Leifer

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

Alan Rudolph

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

Charles W. Pickering

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

Charles Taylor

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Charles Edward Merriam

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Richard G. Scott

I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience.... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth.

Brenton Thwaites

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

Dianne Wiest

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

David Agus

I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.

Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Aaron Tveit

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Charlotte Bronte

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Charlie Haden

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Daniels

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.