Creativity Quotes - Page 37

Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

When you're young, you're not really worried too much about what people think. You're just in this beautiful, natural place with creativity, and it's just flowing through you, whereas after a few years and a few records, you have all these pressures starting to build on your back.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.

Creativity is just connecting things.

The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we live in, is by listening and observing not only to life around you but to the other people who are in the room. It's not about a sort of, you know, a sense that you have to be democratic about these things, it's a question of creativity that the process of making theatre is a collaborative process, and it is not in, it is not a question of, you know, I have no interest in paying lip service to it, for me it's absolutely fundamental.

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Creativity is to think more efficiently.

Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic nature of the inward journey of creativity, which is by nature back and down - back in time and down into the soul's depths.

At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.

You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.