Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Maslow

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

Abraham Maslow

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

Alex Steffen

To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.

Aleksandar Hemon

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

Daphne Guinness

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

Dan Miller

In today’s work arena, creativity may be more of an asset than competence.

Cornel West

American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Iain McGilchrist

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

Russell Simmons

We are excited to honor three individuals who have done so much to support the creativity of so many.

We leave room for improvisation and creativity at our concerts.

Orson Scott Card

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

David Bohm

It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.

David Karp

I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

David Karp

I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

David Ben-Gurion

It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.

David Ogilvy

The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means 'originality': The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising

David Ogilvy

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

Dag Hammarskjold

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.

Dag Hammarskjold

You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?

Daisaku Ikeda

The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should be valued as manifestations of the richness of our shared creativity.

Daisaku Ikeda

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Cynthia Weil

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

We are shifting from an economy that is industrially focused to one that relies on creativity for the consumer.

With physician face time so scarce, reps must fight the urge to deliver scripted pitches. While these may seem to save time, they take away from the creativity and individualization that makes a rep -- and product -- stand out in a doctor's mind. Face time is important, but face time fashioned to the doctor's needs and wants is what lands the sale for a rep.

Chris Hardwick

In the end, all that time I spent in the 'Star Wars' universe fostered galaxies of creativity and made me a better person here on Earth, because it taught me that everyone counts. That's why I can sincerely and with a straight face say: 'May the Force be with you.'

Heather Kent

We often forget about creativity with a little 'c'. You don't have to be Mozart or Einstein. Creativity can just be about the day-to-day stuff that makes life better.

We were so incredibly fortunate to have had Joe at the studio sharing his creativity and enthusiasm, and inspiring young talent for such a long time.

Bill Clinton

We must protect our citizens' privacy -- the bulwark of personal liberty, the safeguard of individual creativity.

William Shakespeare

Have patience, and endure