Creativity Quotes - Page 56

Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off

Art takes nature as its model.

Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.

The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?

The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome.

When I played in a 21-team league, there were six or seven goalies who were just average, and the equipment and pads were smaller. I came in the right era. I played for the right team. It was all speed, and creativity and imagination.

The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

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.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity.