Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Collins

Bugs Bunny is my muse.

I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

Unused creativity is not benign.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

There is no creativity without vulnerability.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Brandy Norwood

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.

Antonio Porchia

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Bruce Lee

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

Eckhart Tolle

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

Eckhart Tolle

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

Eckhart Tolle

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

Love is a key ingredient for creativity.

Elijah Wood

You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.

Elie Wiesel

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Ai Weiwei

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

Ai Weiwei

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

Beyonce Knowles

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

Edward Hirsch

She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that I had the passion and the enthusiasm and the creativity to become a poet, but that what I was writing was not poetry because I was just expressing my feelings and I wasn't try to make anything.

Edward Gibbon

bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

Edith Schaeffer

If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.

Edith Schaeffer

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

David Hume

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

David Duchovny

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

David Brin

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.