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 ~
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.
~By Tony Hsieh ~
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 ~
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
~By Brian Aldiss ~
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.
~By Billy Higgins ~
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~By Scott Adams ~
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
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 ~
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 ~
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
~By Charles Mingus ~
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
~By Robert Iger ~
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 ~
But out of limitations comes creativity.
~By Debbie Allen ~
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 ~
And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.
~By Billy Sherwood ~
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
~By Chuck Jones ~
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
~By Ben Okri ~
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
~By Mason Cooley ~
It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
~By Nicholas Lea ~
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 ~
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
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 ~
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
~By Nnamdi Azikiwe ~
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 ~
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 ~
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.
~By Robert Trout ~
What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.
~By Lois Capps ~
You can't teach creativity at film school.
~By Daniel Walker ~
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
~By Jean Houston ~
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
~By David Rockefeller ~
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 ~
I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.
~By Jim Capaldi ~
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 ~
I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.
~By Jim Gilmore ~
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.
~By George Shearing ~
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
~By Gilda Radner ~
We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.
~By Shirley Williams ~
When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.
~By Paul Stanley ~
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
~By Julia Cameron ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
~By Giacomo Meyerbeer ~
Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
~By Camille Paglia ~
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
~By Shania Twain ~
Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.
~By Roger Wilkins ~
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 ~
You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.
~By Patty Duke ~
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
~By Edwin Land ~
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 ~
True creativity often starts where language ends.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
~By William Plomer ~
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
~By Florence King ~
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 ~
What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things.
~By Suzanne Somers ~
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 ~
Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
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 comes from a conflict of ideas.
~By Donatella Versace ~
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
~By Brian Aldiss ~
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
~By Edward de Bono ~
I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.
~By Merle Haggard ~
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 ~
Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
~By Martha Beck ~
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 ~
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.
~By Mark Udall ~
Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more.
~By Loris Malaguzzi ~
Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.
~By Jef I. Richards ~
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
~By Edwin Land ~
I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.
~By Scott Bakula ~
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
~By Masaru Ibuka ~
I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.
~By Michael Mann ~
If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
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.
~By Vera Wang ~
Creativity takes courage.
~By Henri Matisse ~
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 ~
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
~By Henry Rollins ~
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 ~
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
~By Dee Hock ~
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
~By Jean Dubuffet ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
~By William Shatner ~
I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.
~By Brad Paisley ~
I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.
~By Josh Lucas ~
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
~By Madeleine L'Engle ~
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