Creativity Quotes

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

I love connecting with kids. I love connecting with children of all ages to keep their imagination active because that's the key to happiness and imagination and creativity.

Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.

Unused creativity is not benign.

When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.

Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative.

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.

History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

All I have, really, is my creativity.

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.

Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying to outdo each other to be noticed even.

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

Creativity is really the structuring of magic.

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.

Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others.

Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

What I love about our show is that it's so nuanced and feels very real to me. I think how it explores creativity in general is very real.

If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to make a muddle of it.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

I love to laugh, I love color, I love texture, and I love creativity, so I was always inspired by people who incorporate those things in their work.

I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

If the door is locked, try the window.

As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.

Inertia is the death of creativity

In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.