Quotes about creativity
creativity government machines
Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine. Henry A. Kissinger
creativity acceptance rose
The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. Hazrat Inayat Khan
creativity space office
I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity. Helmut Jahn
creativity something-new elimination
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
creativity sixty-minutes dimes
TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside. Hedda Hopper
creativity writing iron
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. Henry David Thoreau
creativity thinking levels
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level, Pat Metheny
creativity winter rivers
Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when... Pablo Neruda
creativity hands people
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter. Pablo Casals
creativity world save-the-world
Music will save the world.
creativity rehearsal rooms
I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there. Laurie Metcalf
creativity emotional ideas
When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling. Lauryn Hill
creativity gears
He lives with his creativity in high gear. John Travolta
creativity ideas interesting
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers. John Ralston Saul
creativity hands management
Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.
creativity writing thinking
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen Laura Hillenbrand
creativity people missing
They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that. Lester Bowie
creativity writing ideas
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. Friedrich Schiller
creativity hands order
In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space. George Gilder
creativity flow arena
Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.
creativity ideas creative
Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.
creativity passion evil
Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess. Jon Katz
creativity thinking process
I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity. Joichi Ito
creativity culture force
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
creativity crafts born
THE CREATIVITY IS JUST SOMETHING THAT, I DON'T KNOW, YOU WORK VERY HARD AT, BUT PART OF YOU SAYS THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH IT. IT'S A CRAFT LIKE EVERY OTHER, YOU HAVE TO KEEP SHARP AND YOU HAVE TO BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS. Jon Bon Jovi
creativity simplicity important
The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity. Ludwig Wittgenstein
creativity goodness humans
Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta) Sherrilyn Kenyon
creativity thinking average
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering. Nick Flynn
creativity self fire
True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection. Nikolai Berdyaev
creativity mystery
Creativity is the mystery of freedom.
creativity men creative
It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.
creativity identity today
In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.
creativity mean creative
Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.