Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nolan Bushnell

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

Nolan Bushnell

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Miguel de Cervantes

Every production must resemble its author.

Miguel de Cervantes

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

John W. Gardner

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

John W. Gardner

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

John W. Gardner

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

John Romero

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

Nick Flynn

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering.

Nikolai Berdyaev

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

Nikolai Berdyaev

It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.

Nikolai Berdyaev

In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.

Nikolai Berdyaev

There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit. The origin of life is creativity, freedom; and the personality, subject, and spirit are the representatives of that origin, but not the nature, not the object.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other....

Monica Lewinsky

My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word....

Mignon McLaughlin

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Maya Angelou

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.

Pat Metheny

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level,

Pablo Neruda

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when...

Pablo Casals

I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

Pablo Casals

Music will save the world.

Laurie Metcalf

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

Petra Kelly

I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and infusing the anti-nuclear and peace movements with a vitality and creativity never seen before.

Pharrell Williams

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.

Pharrell Williams

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

Peter Drucker

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

Peter Bart

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Peter Bart

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.