Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kettering

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

Charles Babbage

Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new principles or to new methods, are of quite a different order from those which are necessary for their practical application.

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.

Edward Norton

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

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.

Anna Silk

Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

Clay Shirky

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

Daniel Kahneman

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.

Daniel Day-Lewis

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

Daniel Day-Lewis

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

David Cronenberg

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

Doris Lessing

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Daniel Radcliffe

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Damon Albarn

There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

Cory Doctorow

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

Daphne Koller

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

Duncan Sheik

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Duncan Sheik

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

Dries van Noten

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

Douglas Coupland

You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.

Andre Dubus

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.