Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malorie Blackman

Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.

Nawal El Saadawi

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

Mitchell Hurwitz

We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make. In general, we're going to just try to make these under a half-hour. We're going to try to take that kind of cable TV comedy model.

Mikhail Bakunin

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Marilyn Ferguson

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Marianne Faithfull

I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?

Mikhail Bakunin

The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

Ned Rorem

If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

Priscilla Presley

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

Neil Young

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

Neneh Cherry

I've always been doing stuff, being creative. But I got to the point where I starting to feel this longing, craving, itchy feeling - which was the first sign that it was time. I've made a few attempts to make other solo records, but when I've looked back at the body of work I've always felt like I was never quite there.

Noam Chomsky

After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.

Noam Chomsky

A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.

Noam Chomsky

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Ken Burns

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

Kazimir Malevich

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

Kristen Stewart

There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.

Kiri Te Kanawa

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

Kinky Friedman

We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.

Ken Robinson

To be creative you actually have to do something.

Ken Robinson

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

Ken Robinson

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

Lake Bell

With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

Pablo Picasso

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

Paul Schrader

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

Paul McDonald

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

Patti LuPone

John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.

Louis Kahn

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

Michael Crichton

Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

Method Man

I've got more creative control when I do music.