Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Arnold

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Meg Wolitzer

The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it any longer.

Matthew McConaughey

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

Mark Shields

The person you're choosing is going to be 90 feet down the hall for four years. That's a pretty intimate and close relationship, and it better be somebody you're comfortable with, you like, you trust, you look forward to seeing, not someone you're coming up with creative ideas on how to avoid.

Edward Albee

If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.

Edward Albee

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Edward Albee

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

Eckhart Tolle

Enthusiasm is when the universe creates through you. You are involved in a creative act. You are bringing something new into this world. When that energy comes in, you feel an intense aliveness that flows into what you do. That is enthusiasm.

Eckhart Tolle

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.

The market is nice right now for engineers. But they're going to have to be creative in how they think about using their skills. Everybody's trying to go through the same doors right now with the names they recognize.

Holly Madison

I wouldn't mind doing Playboy again. But only if I had creative control.

Jonathan Lipnicki

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

Jonathan Brandis

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

Jonah Lehrer

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Joyce Carol Oates

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

Kate Baldwin

If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

Julie Delpy

We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive. It’s very rare to be able to do that. It’s completely pure.

Tyler Cowen

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.

Patty Duke

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

Mel Gibson

Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.

Mel Brooks

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Pope John Paul II

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Pink

You can't be creative when you're completely happy.

Pope Francis

I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!

Peter McWilliams

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

Pete Carroll

You do what you have to do to compete, and that takes you to places where you are in a relentless state to find an edge and compete. That mentality keeps you on and on point. The how is following the drive, being resourceful and creative.

Polykarp Kusch

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

Robert Fritz

Without making the fundamental choice to be the predominant creative force in your life, no matter what you do to attempt to benefit yourself or enhance your life, you will merely be finding more sophisticated ways of responding to circumstances.

Rita Mae Brown

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

Robert H. Schuller

Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.

Robert Greene

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.