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.

Carlos Fuentes

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Carlos Fuentes

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

Charles Caleb Colton

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Byron Katie

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

Bryce Courtenay

The imagination is always the best torturer.

Elliot Perlman

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

Kate Micucci

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

Jane Addams

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Carlos Castaneda

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

Agnes Repplier

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

David Suzuki

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Janine Benyus

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

Alan Greenspan

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

Edmund Burke

To innovate is not to reform.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

Brian Herbert

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Carl Jung

You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.