Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rollo May

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Rollo May

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Rollo May

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

Rollo May

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

Rollo May

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Rollo May

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

Rollo May

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

Rollo May

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Rollo May

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Rollo May

What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.

Tom Peters

The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators...

Tom Barrett

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

Tommy Shaw

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

Steve Wozniak

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

Steve Harvey

I don't rehearse on either of my shows, 'Family Feud' or my talk show. I never rehearse with the guests. I don't want to have any preconceived thoughts, notions, because that kills my creativity as a host and as a stand up.

Stephen Elop

One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.

Stephen Covey

The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.

Stephen Covey

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

Stephen Covey

Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together.

Stephen Covey

All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.

Thomas Carlyle

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Tom Wujec

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

Steve Ballmer

In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.

Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Steven Pressfield

F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I'll be back.

Susan L. Taylor

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

Sue Halpern

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.

Richard Stallman

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

Richard Stallman

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

T. D. Jakes

Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

T. S. Eliot

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.