The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
~By William Bernbach ~
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
~By Dee Hock ~
Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.
~By Ron Kind ~
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.
~By Mary Garden ~
To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.
~By Lukas Foss ~
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
~By Shania Twain ~
When I think about my new CD, the word "joy" comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.
~By George Duke ~
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
~By Ray Kroc ~
You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.
~By Richard Price ~
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
~By Charles Mingus ~
Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.
~By Peter Bart ~
So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
~By Henri Poincare ~
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
~By Elizabeth Gilbert ~
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
~By Edwin Land ~
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
~By Bernice Fitz-Gibbon ~
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.
~By Henry Kravis ~
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
~By Jackie Gleason ~
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
~By Robin Trower ~
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.
~By Julian Lennon ~
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
~By Charles Mingus ~
Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.
~By David Neeleman ~
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
~By Dee Hock ~
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
~By Ben Okri ~
Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
~By Buddy Rich ~
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
~By Bernice Fitz-Gibbon ~
The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?
~By Alva Noto ~
Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.
~By Jay Inslee ~
Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.
~By Donald Norman ~
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
~By Madeleine L'Engle ~
I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
~By Rita Dove ~
Written reports stifle creativity.
~By Ross Perot ~
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
~By William Plomer ~
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
~By Edward de Bono ~
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
~By Robert Evans ~
I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.
~By Greg Lake ~
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
~By Richard Stallman ~
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
~By Masaru Ibuka ~
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
~By Sylvia Plath ~
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
~By David Rockefeller ~
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
~By Doug Coupland ~
True creativity often starts where language ends.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
~By Greg Anderson ~
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
~By Jean Houston ~
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
~By Julia Cameron ~
What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~By Scott Adams ~
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
~By Sophia Loren ~
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.
~By Paul Schrader ~
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
~By Gilda Radner ~
I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
Creativity takes courage.
~By Henri Matisse ~
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known.
~By Loris Malaguzzi ~
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
~By David Duchovny ~
I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.
~By Jim Capaldi ~
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
~By Otto Rank ~
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
~By Bo Bennett ~
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
~By Joichi Ito ~
Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.
~By Billy Higgins ~
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
~By Bill Gates ~
I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
~By Edward de Bono ~
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
~By Ross Perot ~
We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.
~By Shirley Williams ~
So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
~By Dave Eggers ~
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
~By Joichi Ito ~
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
~By William J. Wilson ~
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
~By Abdelaziz Bouteflika ~
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
~By Giacomo Meyerbeer ~
I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
~By Carole King ~
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
~By Mario Vargas Llosa ~
I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
~By Brian Aldiss ~
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
But out of limitations comes creativity.
~By Debbie Allen ~
Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.
~By George E. Pataki ~
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
~By Julia Margaret Cameron ~
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.
~By Brian May ~
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
~By Al Gore ~
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
~By Rollo May ~
Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
~By Bill Moyers ~
I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.
~By Daniel Smith ~
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
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