Creative Quotes - Page 17

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

You are God's highest form of creation. You are a living breathing creative magnet. You have the ability to control what you attract into your life.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.

Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.

All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.

Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.

I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.