Tag: Creativity

Quotes July 11, 2021

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer – American Broadcast Journalist
 
 
 
 
“We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.”
Zoraida Cordova
 
 
 
 
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”
Jesse Owens
 
 
 
 
“It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.”
Howard Bloom
 
 
 
 
“For the first three months, I place each student at a table with a thousand pieces of white paper and a trash can underneath. Every day they have to sit at the table for several hours and write ideas. They put the ideas they like on the right side of the table; the ones they don’t like, they put in the trash. But we don’t throw out the trash. After three months, I only take the ideas from the trash can. I don’t even look at the ideas they liked. Because the trash can is a treasure trove of things they’re afraid to do.”
Life Lessons from Marina Abramović
 
 
 
 
You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else’s point of view.
Penelope Cruz,
actor
 
 
 
 
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust,
writer, critic, essayist
 
 
 
 
When we live our lives everyday, we’re met by opportunities, and most of us don’t even recognize them.
I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.
Scarlett Johansson,
actor
 
 
 
 
Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.
Leo Tolstoy,
writer

Quotes October 04, 2018

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
 
 
 
 
Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process.
Elizabeth Gilbert
 
 
 
 
Creativity comes from trust. trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
 
 
 
 
I’m experimental by nature… always exploring my creativity
Christina Aguilera
 
 
 
 
The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
Twyla Tharp
 
 
 
 
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
 
 
 
 
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock
 
 
 
 
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
Dorothy Parker
 
 
 
 
Creative isn’t the way I think, it’s the way I like to live.
Paul Sandip
 
 
 
 
Creativity requires input, and that’s what research is. You’re gathering material with which to build.
Gene Luen Yang
 
 
 
 
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
Donatella Versace
 
 
 
 
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
Bob Iger
 
 
 
 
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
Pablo Picasso
 
 
 
 
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
 
 
 
 
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer
 
 
 
 
Creativity is nothing but a mind set free.
Torrie T. Asai
 
 
 
 
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
 
 
 
 
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
Deepak Chopra
 
 
 
 
Rational thoughts never drive people’s creativity the way emotions do.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
 
 
 
 
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
Rollo May
 
 
 
 
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
 
 
 
 
Creativity is nothing but the way to solve new problems.
Diana Santos

Quotes September 17, 2018

Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.
Ed Mc Cabe
 
 
 
 
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King
 
 
 
 
You don’t have to be ‘a creative’ to be creative.
Droby Ben-Menachem
 
 
 
 
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
Mason Cooley
 
 
 
 
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing.
Edward de Bono
 
 
 
 
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
Cecil B. DeMille
 
 
 
 
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.
Bruce Garrabrandt
 
 
 
 
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur Clarke
 
 
 
 
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
Masaru Ibuka
 
 
 
 
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
 
 
 
 
Creativity is breaking out of established patterns to look at things in a different way.
Edward de Bono
 
 
 
 
The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
 
 
 
 
Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus
 
 
 
 
You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
 
 
 
 
Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
Naomi Judd
 
 
 
 
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese
 
 
 
 
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
To be creative means to be in love with life.
Osho
 
 
 
 
The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right doing.
Angeles Arrien
 
 
 
 
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.
Debbie Ford
 
 
 
 
Almost all creativity requires purposeful play
Abraham Maslow
 
 
 
 
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk
 
 
 
 
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
J. Tillman
 
 
 
 
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
Julia Cameron

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