Creative Quotes - Page 38

• If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Creativity, Ambition

  4 Copy quote

• Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress

  Wilferd Peterson

  Creativity, Ideas, Progress

  9 Copy quote

• For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.

  William Lipscomb

  Creativity, Sleep, Night

  "William N. Lipscomb Jr., Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 91" by Glenn Rifkin, www.nytimes.com. April 15, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

  W. H. Auden

  Cancer, Men, Fire

  8 Copy quote

• Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.

  Charles Van Doren

  America, West, Far Away

  4 Copy quote

• Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Sorrow

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Educational, Taught, Belief

  13 Copy quote

• Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Writing, Would Be, Done

  4 Copy quote

• Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Confidence, Believe, Goal

  9 Copy quote

• There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

  Eric Hoffer

  Soul, Way, Natural

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

  Pam Grier

  Creativity, Reality, Our World

  12 Copy quote

• That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

  Victor Garber

  Strong, Team, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

  David Hume

  Creativity, Mind, Faculty

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.10, Courier Corporation

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

  Peter Bart

  Creativity, Hollywood, Towns

  7 Copy quote

• All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

  Rollo May

  Struggle, Creativity, Artist

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

  Rollo May

  Commitment, Creativity, Dedication

  4 Copy quote

• To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

  Margaret Mead

  Creativity, Thinking, May

  12 Copy quote

• We have to trust these feelings. We have to trust the invisible gauges we carry within us. We have to realize that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will give us no peace until we do.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Believe, Creativity, Giving

  "Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person".

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a director, you try to find what is creative.

  Jan de Bont

  Creativity, Trying, Directors

  8 Copy quote

• Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Challenges, Culture

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Creativity, Our Society, Vulnerable

  75 Copy quote

• Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Doe, World

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, School, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creativity, Energy, Enthusiasm

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.181, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

  Charlie Haden

  Struggle, Creativity, Kind

  "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source