Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Tom Wujec

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

Steve Ballmer

In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.

Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Robert A. Heinlein

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

Tiger Woods

Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.

Thomas Troward

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.

Tom Kelley

It turns out that creativity isn’t some rare gift to be enjoyed by the lucky few—it’s a natural part of human thinking and behavior. In too many of us it gets blocked. But it can be unblocked. And unblocking that creative spark can have far-reaching implications for yourself, your organization, and your community.

Tom Kelley

Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.

Vidal Sassoon

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

Richard Bach

I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it."

Richard Bach

Fear is all the fear of some loss: "I'm going to lose something." If we declare, and if we know in our hearts, "I already have everything that I need: I have life, I have creativity, I have joy, I have nourishment. I have everything I need," and if we just say, "It doesn't depend on my having a physical body to do it," then everything opens up.

Rita Wilson

I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

Rita Mae Brown

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

Timothy Egan

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

Timothy Garton Ash

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

Timothy Leary

One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

Tom Peters

The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators...

Tom Barrett

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

Tommy Shaw

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

Steve Wozniak

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

Steve Harvey

I don't rehearse on either of my shows, 'Family Feud' or my talk show. I never rehearse with the guests. I don't want to have any preconceived thoughts, notions, because that kills my creativity as a host and as a stand up.

Stephen Elop

One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.

Stephen Covey

The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.

Stephen Covey

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

Stephen Covey

Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together.

Stephen Covey

All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.

Uzo Aduba

I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

Tasha Smith

Creativity inspires me.

Steven Pressfield

F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I'll be back.

Susan L. Taylor

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

Sue Halpern

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.

Richard Stallman

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.