Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeanette Winterson

I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.

Jeanette Winterson

Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something which can reveal the intrinsic patterns of that fragmentation. Things are in a perpetual dance, but there is an order. It's not really random at all.

Jim Capaldi

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

Jewel

Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.

Jerome Bruner

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Jehane Noujaim

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

Jef Raskin

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

Jeremy Jordan

I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there's not a safe environment for that.

Jeff Bridges

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

George William Curtis

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.

George Will

Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone XL pipeline. It has not yet been built but already is perhaps the most constructive infrastructure project since the Interstate Highway System. It has accomplished an astonishing trifecta

Jim Gilmore

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

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...

Esther Hicks

If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.

Esther Hicks

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

Ernst Junger

In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

Ernie Harwell

Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.

Ernest Hemingway

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

Etty Hillesum

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

Grover Cleveland

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

Grimes

Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

Ian Somerhalder

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

Hugh Prather

Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.

Hugh Prather

We are all saying the same thing in different words.

Hannah Arendt

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

Guy Fieri

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

George Bernard Shaw

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Erich Fromm

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Erich Fromm

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.