Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Natalie Clifford Barney

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

Kelsey Grammer

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

Kim Gordon

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

Kevin Roberts

We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners.

Hyman Rickover

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

Hyman Rickover

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Giorgio Armani

For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.

J. K. Rowling

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

J. Tillman

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

Grant Achatz

People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.