Inspire Creativity Quotes - Page 3

• Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Education, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Fall, Creativity

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.156, Best Books on

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• Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Next Move

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

  Walt Disney

  Moving Forward, Long, Creative

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

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• You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!". Book by Dr. Seuss, August 21, 1975.

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• Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

  Ray Bradbury

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

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• Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

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• Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Art, Inspiration

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• A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivational, Dance, Teamwork

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin

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• To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Dance, Mean

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Moving On, Moving Forward

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

  George Lois

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Creativity

  "'Damn Good Advice' From One Of The Real 'Mad Men'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 19, 2012.

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• Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

  Edgar Degas

  Beauty, Dance, Art

  "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

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• We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Miracle, Faces

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone
  creative?'

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Keys, Creative

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, People, Might

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• Life is about trying things to see if they work.

  Ray Bradbury

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

  Edward de Bono

  Buddhist, Creativity, Buddhism

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Shakespeare, Woody Allen And A Certain Qantas A380" by Christine Negroni, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Don't think about making art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Thinking, Famous Artist

  Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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