Creativity Quotes - Page 41

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

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

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

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

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.

Creativity is never too contrived.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.

When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

Successful people are usually more lively than those who are unsuccessful. The quickening of the spirit they feel comes out of their creativity, and success detaches them from the more rigid outlook on life - it puts them in the flow. So the shakers and movers, by their very nature, are moving faster, taking more risks, and investing more in the world than their less active counterparts.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.

None of us are as creative as all of us.

The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.

Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Love is the force, the energy that animates creativity and peace in each one of us.