Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Silva

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

Eva Zeisel

If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas...

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.

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.

I just like everything about this industry. There's a lot of creativity in what we do.

I didn't talk to him when he signed. But it's going to take some finagling and creativity.

Jack Canfield

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

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.

It?s an open-ended project so their creativity flows.

Paul Jenkins

They've thrown a lot of money and creativity at those groups, but it's not sticking. It's a strong brand, but it's not where it should be.

It's an outlet for me to express my creativity.

It looks like that initial response on Friday was misplaced. This lacks imagination, lacks creativity, lacks forward thinking, lacks youth.

Lois Capps

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

LL Cool J

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

Madeleine L'Engle

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

Madeleine L'Engle

But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.

John F. Kennedy

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

Jonathan Ive

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

Jonathan Ive

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Jonas Salk

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Jonah Lehrer

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

Jonah Lehrer

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.