Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brooks

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

David Allen

It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

David Allen

Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.

David Allen

Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

David Deutsch

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

Carl Sagan

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Buddy Rich

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

Buddy Rich

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.

Bryan Adams

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

Caitlin Moran

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

Chogyam Trungpa

People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

Chinua Achebe

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

Chin-Ning Chu

By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.

Cheryl Richardson

Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.

Cheryl Richardson

I am a master at setting boundaries that protect my time, energy, creativity, and emotional well-being.

Chaim Potok

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Charles Scott

Creativity is great-but not in accounting.

Charles Revson

Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

Charles Mingus

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Charles Mingus

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; ...

Charles Mingus

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Charles Mingus

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Handy

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

Kurt Vonnegut

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

We're going to take all steps necessary to protect the creativity and innovation of our employees.

Bill Watterson

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

Bob Iger

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

Biz Stone

Creativity is a renewable resource.

Biz Stone

I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints inspire creativity.

Biz Stone

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Biz Stone

Constraint inspires creativity