Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Branden

It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

Naomi Watts

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Nadine Gordimer

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

Mitt Romney

Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

R. Buckminster Fuller

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

Pope Paul VI

Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop and are concentrated, others die or change their location. Thus new social problems are created: professional or regional unemployment, redeployment and mobility of persons, permanent adaptation of workers and disparity of conditions in the different branches of industry.

Oscar Niemeyer

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Oprah Winfrey

I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.

Marcel Duchamp

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

Marcel Duchamp

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Marc Almond

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

Ken Robinson

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

Ken Robinson

We get educated out of creativity.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Ken Robinson

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Ken Robinson

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Ken Robinson

We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

Ken Robinson

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

Ken Robinson

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

Ken Robinson

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Ken Robinson

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is as important as literacy

Ken Robinson

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

Ken Robinson

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

Ken Robinson

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

Ken Robinson

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

Ken Robinson

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

Leonardo da Vinci

I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.