Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ben-Gurion

It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.

Deepak Chopra

One way to access the field is through the daily practice of silence, meditation, and non-judgment. Spending time in nature will also give you access to the qualities inherent in the field: infinite creativity, freedom, and bliss.

Deepak Chopra

Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.

Deepak Chopra

Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions-wherever the power of your attention takes you.

Deepak Chopra

Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions.

Debbie Allen

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Debbi Fields

Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.

Angela Carter

Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.

Andrew Greeley

The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.

Anthony Braxton

For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.

Anthony Bourdain

The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love.

Andy Rooney

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

Andy Stanley

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

I think it helped my creativity to be in a town that didn't have that influence. It helped the productivity to be in a place where there wasn't much structure. You had to make it happen for yourself.

I also found myself missing the opportunity for the kind of creativity that I've had in previous jobs,

Muhammad Yunus

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

Eric Johnson

I think it's a tribute (to the book) to how much creativity has played in showing the dog's perspective.

There is new creativity being expressed; the sound and style of the music mirrors a lot of what is going on in the culture. The music is very contemporary.

Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked ideas have no value until they are implemented.

He had a great mixture of an engineer's mind and the creativity of an artist. He was one of the most impressive young men I've ever met. I am so proud to have been his teacher.

I go to the water with a good idea and the water gives it back to me great. Half of what is totally magic in my work isn't me, and I don't say that out of humility, it's just that the water itself is this extraordinary, lyrical, poetic force and when you're working with it, it's there, it's your partner in creativity and it knows more than I do, I swear.

We leave room for improvisation and creativity at our concerts.

With physician face time so scarce, reps must fight the urge to deliver scripted pitches. While these may seem to save time, they take away from the creativity and individualization that makes a rep -- and product -- stand out in a doctor's mind. Face time is important, but face time fashioned to the doctor's needs and wants is what lands the sale for a rep.

Chris Hardwick

In the end, all that time I spent in the 'Star Wars' universe fostered galaxies of creativity and made me a better person here on Earth, because it taught me that everyone counts. That's why I can sincerely and with a straight face say: 'May the Force be with you.'

Russell Simmons

We are excited to honor three individuals who have done so much to support the creativity of so many.

Heather Kent

We often forget about creativity with a little 'c'. You don't have to be Mozart or Einstein. Creativity can just be about the day-to-day stuff that makes life better.

Orson Scott Card

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

We are shifting from an economy that is industrially focused to one that relies on creativity for the consumer.

Our finale links the intensity of young composers' creativity with the exuberance and sparkle of young performers.

Michael Redd

Our whole identity is to push the basketball, and that's what he does best. Once he gets in the open court, his creativity takes over, and we're better off by doing that.

Billy Corgan

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Bill Bradley

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'