Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. G. Ballard

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

J. I. Packer

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

Jack Abramoff

All I have, really, is my creativity.

Irving Kaufman

Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence of artistic expression is invention and artists necessarily draw on their own experience. But if the rules of liability are unclear, artists will not be able to know how much disguise is sufficient to protect their claims from the claims of those who may see themselves in the portrayals.

Greg Graffin

Creativity is a challenge. It requires us to be fully human -- autonomous yet engaged, independent yet interdependent. Creativity bridges the conflict between our individualistic and our sociality. It celebrates the commonality of our species while simultaneously setting us apart as unique individuals.

Greg Graffin

You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.

Gwen Stefani

People might think you can turn creativity on and off, but it's not like that. It just kind of comes out. A mash up of all these things you collect in your mind. You never know when it's gonna happen, but when it does ... it's like magic. It's just that simple and it's just that hard.

Gwyneth Paltrow

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.

Judith Anderson

Innovation, creativity, and enthusiasm are all linked. When you walk into a warehouse and the manager can't wait to show you what the staff has accomplished, you can feel the enthusiasm, excitement, and pride. When that energy doesn't exist, there probably isn't much innovation or creativity going on.

I looked at his previous work and I was extremely impressed with his creativity, his eye for talent and his eye for lighting. He is totally in touch with what needs to be done to make great product and he won't sacrifice anything. He's a real perfectionist. It's exciting to have someone like him on our team.

Buddy Holly

But that's not so with John. He was very much at the height of his popularity and his creativity. It's a tragedy.

Stephen Colbert

They thought it was warping their children's minds. Which it might have been, but it also took a lot of creativity to play it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

John W. Gardner

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

John W. Gardner

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

John W. Gardner

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

John Romero

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

Nicole Kidman

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

Nicholas Lea

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

Seth Gabel

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

Seth Gabel

The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that's constantly happening over and over again. Whether it's an actual death or just a shift in perspective, that cycle is forever continuing. As an actor and person, that's just something you have to accept.

Seth Godin

The enemy of creativity is fear.

Seth Godin

I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.

Seth Godin

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

Seth Godin

The enemy of fear is creativity.

Seth Godin

The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.

Seth Godin

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

Rajneesh

So if you are seeking something else in the name of creativity, then drop the idea of being creative. At least consciously, deliberately, do whatsoever you want to do. Never hide behind masks. If you really want to be creative, then there is no question of money, success, prestige, respectability. Then you enjoy your activity; then each act has an intrinsic value. You dance because you like dancing; you dance because you delight in it.

Rajneesh

So the first thing to be remembered: don't confine creativity to anything in particular. A man is creative - and if he is creative, whatsoever he does, even if he walks, you can see in his walking there is creativity. Even if he sits silently and does nothing, even non-doing will be a creative act. Buddha sitting under the Bodhi Tree doing nothing is the greatest creator the world has ever known.

Rajneesh

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

Rajneesh

Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do.

Rajneesh

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

Rajneesh

God is creativity, not a Creator.