Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Robinson

If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original

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.

Carla Hall

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

Bryan Cranston

Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.

James Dyson

It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.

Jarvis Cocker

If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, Internet is pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"

Jarvis Cocker

It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a lot of it comes from the unconscious. So if you’re always checking your email or updating your Instagram profile, you’re not just looking out the window, daydreaming. You’ve got to let the subconscious in – that’s my main message to the world.

Jarvis Cocker

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

Jane Badler

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Ethan Suplee

I think about the period of, like, the '70s and early '80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there was no CGI or anything like that and people had to get super creative. And then, you know, when you've got somebody who can paint you any picture on a computer and you get hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie, its almost like the creativity diminishes somewhat.

Ethan Zuckerman

Creativity is an import-export business.

Ernest Becker

The road to creativity passes...

Ernest Becker

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Glen Hansard

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Frank Herbert

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

Frank Herbert

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Jim Butcher

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

Jay Inslee

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

Kumi Naidoo

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

Karl Ove Knausgard

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.

Julia Child

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

Julia Cameron

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.

Julia Cameron

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

Julia Cameron

If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.

Julia Cameron

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

Julia Cameron

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

Julia Cameron

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

Julia Cameron

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Julia Cameron

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

Julia Cameron

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

Julia Cameron

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

Julia Cameron

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.