Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

Nolan Bushnell

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

Nolan Bushnell

One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.

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.

Robert Holden

People who follow their joy discover a depth of creativity and talent that inspires the world.

Edward de Bono

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

Edward de Bono

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all...

Edward de Bono

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

Edward de Bono

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

Edward de Bono

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

Edward de Bono

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Edward de Bono

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Edward de Bono

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

Edward de Bono

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

Edward de Bono

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

Edward de Bono

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Edward de Bono

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Edward Albee

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

Edward Albee

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

Eckhart Tolle

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

Eckhart Tolle

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Jonathan Ive

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

Jonathan Ive

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Jonas Salk

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Jonah Lehrer

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.