Creativity Quotes - Page 39

• I was listening to Tommy Chong talking about how he feels like there is like a creative flow happening and how certain people just know how to hook into the pipe. He played music with Jimi Hendrix and felt that he was personally connected to some higher intelligence or creativity.

  Judd Apatow

  Talking, People, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's very little interruption.

  Wole Soyinka

  Thinking, Space, Littles

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.

  Paula Scher

  Long, Long Time, Long Time Ago

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• The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.

  Wole Soyinka

  Reading, Mean, Political

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.

  Van Jones

  Country, People, Joy

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• People who say, "I don't believe in God," I want to say to them, "Forget the G O D word. But can you believe that there is something larger than yourself that is working for you and around you in a brilliant cosmic intelligence?" To me, daily practice of meditation is accessing that reverence and awe and really tapping into it. Do whatever it takes to move with it, to partner with it, and live your life with that in mind. Imagine what would happen if enough of us did that? We would open to such amazing energy, creativity, and power.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Believe, Moving, Practice

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

  Edwin Catmull

  Titles

  "Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 2". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 19, 2016.

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• The best ideas can come from anyone within an organization. Leaders must remember that if they want employees to embrace a new organizational "Dream" or strategy, they need to include them and seek their ideas. Creativity is NOT just for the R&D department.

  Bill Capodagli

  Dream, Organization, Ideas

  "Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 2". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 19, 2016.

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• Storyboarding is what I call an "idea landscape" - one that can help unleash creativity, improve communication, and identify practical solutions to complex problems. The beauty of storyboarding is that ideas from an entire team are harnessed, not just those from the extroverts or vocal members.

  Bill Capodagli

  Team, Communication, Ideas

  "Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 2". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 19, 2016.

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• These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all the time, And to lump all that under the word "creativity" assumes something much more static than it is. That's why an artist may be marvelous in her 20s, and be creating automatic crap in her 40s. A writer may be trivial in his 20s, and be writing incredibly in his 50s, because those things are always in flux.

  Michael Ventura

  Writing, Artist, Skills

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this in terms of creativity. Look at the state of people at 65. How many of them become creative after having to survive in the money culture?

  Michael Ventura

  People, Creative, Culture

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• People are judged continuously everywhere on the most intimate level by the prices on their head. Most of them accept the judgment. It's very hard to have self-respect, or to maintain a state of creativity under these conditions.

  Michael Ventura

  Self, People, Levels

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.

  Nina Simone

  Song, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.musicismysanctuary.com

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• There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Creative, Humanity, Vision

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• When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Frontiers, Solutions, Advancing

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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• 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.

  Greg Cipes

  Children, Kids, Keys

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I've been on antidepressants for years, and it worked to stop my anxiety and didn't limit creativity. Some of the best work I've done, in fact, is after I started taking the antidepressants.

  Temple Grandin

  Years, Anxiety, Done

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to implementation. And there is an extraordinary gadget lust that drives the military. So it's possible that war is just the ultimate expression of creativity.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Military, Technology

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think for the women of today, because we work and go around a lot, Armani is ideal - simple and elegant at the same time. It's not eccentric, and everything he does is very subtle. For the evening, I like Gianfranco Ferre. There's a lot of fantasy and creativity in his clothes.

  Sophia Loren

  Simple, Thinking, Clothes

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Thomas Edison had great visions (for lights, music players, movies, etc.) but he knew they didn't count until he could make them work. His statement that creativity is 99% perspiration makes that point. Consider how much time he spent trying to make a synthetic rubber material for tires and never stopped trying but he never succeeded.

  Philip Kotler

  Player, Light, Vision

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• I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to exercise freedom, that this is not a government that allows you to give, that allows you to explore, and doesn't dampen your own creativity - in the broadest sense - with a lot of dictums or dogmas or restraints. So, insofar as we can remain a free country that allows for the interplay of personal energies. I think this is still a country that is not only working towards a dream, but actually is the dream in action.

  John Updike

  Country, Dream, Believe

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans is the most valuable non-business book because it discusses how you have to draw upon everyone's creativity. America is a mash-up of cultures and traditions, and great businesses know how to tap the strengths of all their employees, whatever their background may be.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Book, Mash Up, America

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.

  Eli Russell Linnetz

  People, Should, Complete Freedom

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.

  Tony Kushner

  Zero, Drama, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been used to commodify and reduce black creativity, and also to appropriate and sell it. That's what John Coltrane said in an interview with a Japanese journalist: "Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist." And he's treated as one of the central figures in the history of jazz. So if he rejected it, then why is it weird when I do it? I'm in the tradition!

  Vijay Iyer

  Black, Jazz, Tradition

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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