Creativity Quotes - Page 94

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

In the end, your creativity -- perhaps even your outrageousness -- will determine the final result.

You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.

Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.

When we cut off access to certain parts of our cities to people on bikes or in wheelchairs, we're not only doing economic damage, we're also doing culture damage. New York is the culture capital of the world because people are running into each other on the street all the time. They are forced to engage in creativity and problem-solving.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.

The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.

We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer, producer, front man. We're the whole thing. You develop, it's not smugness, but this self-reliance, that can limit your creativity. When you're willing and able to invite others into it, you wind up getting a piece of work that's bigger and better than anything you ever imagined it could be.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.

To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

I am honoured to be a part of H&M's designer collaborations. The work with their team is an exciting, fun process. They are very open to pushing boundaries and to set a platform for creativity. This will be a great way for a wider audience to experience elements of the Alexander Wang brand and lifestyle.

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women. I'd been thinking about what I would want to do with that if I was going to write on that theme, and one morning I woke up and Calvin and Ruby Sparks were in my head.

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him?

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.