Creative Quotes - Page 39

The young people today are really so creative and talented - I mean, the ones who are really are and they get together and produce and create. They're an entirely different breed from what I was when I was their age.

Don't hire a dog, then bark yourself

The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

I'm a rock climber. I really specialize in doing first ascents, and finding new routes outside, as opposed to doing competitions. I focus my energy on going out into nature and finding these new climbs. For me, it's not just this athletic pursuit - it's a really creative, artistic thing of finding these amazing formations out in nature, and mixing that with this high level of athleticism.

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.

The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.

Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.

If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don’t have the money, but you’re creative and determined enough, you’ll find the way.

If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.

The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.