Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Albert Einstein

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Albert Einstein

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

Albert Einstein

Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.

Albert Einstein

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Albert Einstein

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Albert Einstein

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Albert Einstein

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

Alfred North Whitehead

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

Alfred North Whitehead

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ....

Albert Einstein

Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.

We'd like to see some creativity here because this is a national historic site.

A. Whitney Brown

I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

Adrienne Rich

I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

Vincent Nichols

Sexual living is a reflection of God's love for us. It has two key qualities, which is faithfulness and creativity of new life.

I was impressed by his enthusiasm and creativity and the record he had.

One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity. Be willing to try on something new and play the game full-out.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Jane Siberry

I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

Buddy Holly

But that's not so with John. He was very much at the height of his popularity and his creativity. It's a tragedy.

I have a room in my house in Scotland, a music room, and when I walk into it the creativity comes for writing. There is an energy in the room you can feel it.

I did not predict the full range of creativity.

Jim Tressel

I don't ever like to squash one's creativity.

Benjamin Disraeli

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Al Yankovic

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

Al Gore

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.

Charles Kettering

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.