Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Smith

Producing and deejaying are two different outlets to the same creativity. When I'm in the studio I get to create and go through my process. When I'm on stage I get to share the results of that process with everybody. It's two different experiences but they both go back to the same thing and I love them both.

Josh Lucas

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

Joseph Haydn

I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

Kary Mullis

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Gary Coleman

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

If the door is locked, try the window.

Lukas Foss

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

Louise Penny

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

Lord Chesterfield

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

Malcolm Gladwell

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

Fred Wilson

If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

Jules Feiffer

Kids are in ongoing need of support, and they get various versions of it from grownups which aren't legitimate - a grownup's version of what we think you should have. We tell you what creativity is, and we even tell you what you're thinking.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

Karl Lagerfeld

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Joyce Cary

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

Oscar Wilde

To define is to limit.

Kanye West

The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.

Kanye West

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want

Julian Lennon

I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

Judy Woodruff

People put on their earphones, they lay out their phones, they put - open up their computers, and they convince themselves that they're most productive when they're focused on their e-mail, when, really, they're ignoring the cafeteria, the watercooler, the meetings with colleagues, the times when really the creativity, collaboration happens.

Paul Klee

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

Patrick Stump

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

John Cleese

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

John Cleese

I think we're all born with a sense of humor. Creativity is another thing though.

John Cleese

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.

John Cleese

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

John Cleese

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

John Cleese

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

John Bradshaw

The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.

Lupe Fiasco

It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.

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.