Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wil Wheaton

The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

Warren G. Bennis

The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.

Warren G. Bennis

Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

Yanni

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

Wiz Khalifa

I'm inspired by other people's creativity, just seeing things happen and wondering where they come from. That gets my mind going. Even if it's just wanting to know how something works.

Winston Graham

I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.

Wim Wenders

The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.

Yukio Mishima

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Ziggy Marley

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

Zhuangzi

The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him?

Zhuangzi

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.

Wendell Pierce

We don't eat to live, we live to eat because that's a part of the creativity of the day.

Walter Pater

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.

Walter Pater

Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.

W. Somerset Maugham

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Yoko Ono

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

Yoko Ono

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

Yoko Ono

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

Yoko Ono

It's better to dance than to march through life.

Wynn Bullock

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Creativity is the firing of my soul.

William O. Douglas

These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence.

Zoe Kazan

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

Zadie Smith

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.