Famous Quotes & Sayings

Penn Jillette

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

Marissa Mayer

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'

Marissa Mayer

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

Marie Antoinette

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Mechai Viravaidya

Take No as a question.

Max Planck

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

Maurice Saatchi

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

Max Ernst

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

Maya Beiser

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

Maya Lin

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

Maya Lin

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Maya Angelou

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Maya Angelou

You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Matthieu Ricard

Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

Marianne Williamson

There should be an expanded role in this society for every human being. I see an expanded role for the human spirit, for excellence, for virtue, and for creativity - within women, and within everyone.

Marianne Williamson

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

Marianne Williamson

We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

Melanie Klein

The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

Mason Cooley

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

Mason Cooley

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Marvin Minsky

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Martin Villeneuve

All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

Mark Zuckerberg

Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world's people. We are all being robbed of the creativity and potential of the two-thirds of the world not yet online. Tomorrow, if we succeed, the Internet will truly represent everyone.

Theodore Roosevelt

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Theodor Reik

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Margaret Mead

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Margaret Mead

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

Margaret J. Wheatley

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

Marcus Buckingham

If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

Milarepa

Although work was, and still is, considered an important part of Osho's vision, in the last years of his life, he began to emphasize creativity as a way of expressing and sharing the fruits of our meditation.

Margaret Wise Brown

there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.

Joseph Badaracco

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.