Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romany Malco

Being able to engage my creativity in a way that makes a difference inspires me more than anything.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections.

Susan Smith

Living in process is being open to insight and encounter. Creativity is becoming intensively absorbed in the process and giving it form.

Susan Orlean

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

Susan Cain

Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.

Stuart Wilde

It is important that the female develops a reality that honors and nurtures her femininity and has an identity and creativity of her own. It is equally important that the male in the relationship endorses that creativity.

Sonia Choquette

Clear focus is the mind’s magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever you clearly focus, you create.

Steve Jobs

None of us are as creative as all of us.

Steve Jobs

The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology

Steve Jobs

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

Steve Jobs

Without death there would be very little progress.

Steve Jobs

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

Steve Jobs

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

Steve Jobs

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

Steve Jobs

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity...when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos -and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

Philip Glass

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

Rachel Cusk

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.

Teddy Thompson

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which builds is better than that which is built.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

Scarlett Johansson

I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever feel like I'm cornered into one expression of creativity because I'm successful at making films or being an actor. I guess it's best to not paint yourself into that corner.

Shimon Peres

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

Shari Arison

I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.