Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

Cheryl Richardson

Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.

Cheryl Richardson

I am a master at setting boundaries that protect my time, energy, creativity, and emotional well-being.

Chaim Potok

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Charles Scott

Creativity is great-but not in accounting.

Charles Revson

Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

Charles Mingus

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Charles Mingus

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; ...

Charles Mingus

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Charles Mingus

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Handy

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

Bill Watterson

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

Bob Iger

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

We're going to take all steps necessary to protect the creativity and innovation of our employees.

Bobby Flay

In the end, your creativity -- perhaps even your outrageousness -- will determine the final result.

Anton Chekhov

Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

Baltasar Gracian

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Arianna Huffington

You can't manage creativity. You need to manage for creativity. You need to create the space for it to emerge.

Arianna Huffington

Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.

Diane Ackerman

The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.

Diane Ackerman

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

Derrick Jensen

A language Older Than Words

Demi Lovato

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Demetri Martin

My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.

Kay Redfield Jamison

There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.

Raymond Domenech

We lacked efficiency, that's a shame. But we showed a lot more creativity than before. Overall I'm happy with the players. They showed a real drive. Something happened tonight that will help us move forward.

David Brooks

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

David Allen

It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

David Allen

Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.

Herbie Hancock

The one thing that we should stick to is to figure out how to become better human beings, but in order to do that we have to go to the second level which is to work on defining the palette of what a better human being is made of, and creativity is one of them.

Brian Eno

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

Brian Eno

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Bret Easton Ellis

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.