Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Weston

The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause, the life within the outer form. Recording unfelt facts, acquired by rule, results in sterile inventory. To see the Thing Itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism - the casual noting of the superficial phase, a transitory mood.

Edward de Bono

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

Edward de Bono

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all...

Edward de Bono

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

Edward de Bono

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

Edward de Bono

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

Edward de Bono

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Edward de Bono

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Edward de Bono

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

Edward de Bono

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

Edward de Bono

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

Edward de Bono

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Edward de Bono

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Edward Albee

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

Edward Albee

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

Eckhart Tolle

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

Eckhart Tolle

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Hermann Hesse

Solitude is independence.

Kevin Spacey

There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.

Kurt Eichenwald

Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their potential; tried and true businesses like the pipelines were almost derided.

Kurt Cobain

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

If the door is locked, try the window.

Lukas Foss

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

Louise Penny

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

Lord Chesterfield

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

Malcolm Gladwell

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

Fred Wilson

If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

Oscar de la Renta

Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

Oliver Sacks

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

Oliver Sacks

Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.