Quotes about creativity

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

I can’t help but to wonder with my thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The holiness of solitude is the gift of creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Instead of being frustrated by adversity, our mind focuses on the adventure of creativity with our thoughts. What a glorious paradise?

Pearl Zhu - Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles

Positive Thinking and creativity are the powerful pairs to push the world forward.

Auliq-Ice -

This world is a business venture and only those that mean business reap bountifully from it.

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before." He got out of bed."It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all ov

Hector Berlioz - The Memoirs

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Time' is the illusional domain occupied by the state of boredom. 'Space' is the infinite - reality - experienced by the state of higher creative consciousness. Choose wisely.

Max Ernst -

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov

The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's passion blazes more brightly and its longing aches more painfully, the grain of criminal thought ripens in a cruel soul more imperturbably and powerfully.

Julie Connor - Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide

When you imagine and clearly articulate your goals in writing, you access the creative energy of your right brain. Imagination and creativity allow you to find solutions to problems that were not previously available to you and give your left brain an opportunity to be receptive to new ideas.

Oli Anderson - Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication

Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

Gordon MacKenzie - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace

Being infinite, the whole of reality is too much for the conscious human mind to grasp. The best any one of us can do is to take the biggest slice of Infinite Reality we can hold - intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally - and make that slice our personal sense of what is real. But no matter how broad it is, any human perception of reality can be no more than a tiny sliver of Infinite Reality.Civilization also has a limited perception of Infinite Reality. And with a haughty self-assurance,

Alfred North Whitehead -

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

You will discover all that pertains to life by reading.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana - Sweet Destiny

Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don't produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - First Series

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Sereda Aleta Dailey - How to Go Vegan Overnight

Being an innovator is something that most people just won't get. It's still yummy doing this thang over here though. The older I get I've come to place where I just love to create so much that I do me regardless of what it looks like to anyone else. Just think: The people in the world who just know they'll make it (In their way) regardless- Always make it to their chosen destinations. It's wonderful to see. So DO you always, And do so unapologetically with happiness! Peace and love.

Madeleine L'Engle - Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

Ernest Hemingway -

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Charlotte Eriksson -

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

Charlotte Eriksson -

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

Kamal Ravikant - Live Your Truth

When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it.

Kamal Ravikant - Live Your Truth

There is one rule, though: once you discover your truth, you have to go all in. Fully. Every single chip.

Rebecca Solnit - The Faraway Nearby

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu - The Prince and the Pauper

There is really nothing you gain from being a pauper rather you loose every thing.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Write like you have many readers.

Laurie Perez - Atomic Truths and Stellar Seeking: A Joybroker's Guide to the Stars Inside

Shake off the tonnage of old genetics, nitpicking naysayers and hand-me-down Egos hoarding junk in the back of your mind.Be a Friday night liberty set loose on Monday morning.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency.

Sunday Adelaja -

Develop your intellect and your creative ways of thinking

Dean Keak Tegn -

If you want to be creative, eat salt not sugar.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The Creator fuels creativity.

Robert Gerlach - Innovator's High

The more you have seen, the larger your cognitive map, the more you can imagine.

Micheal Lee Nelson - Ceres 2525

Desperation is the father of invention.

Natasha Tsakos -

Creativity is the DNA of innovation, the virus of evolution, the antidote to automation

Michelle Franklin - and the worl

There are two gradations of cold that are always acceptable: Mild Frost, which is preferable for reading and writing and any other activity done indoors, and Absolute Zero, which is the only temperature suitable for sleep. There is nothing more delicious than being swathed in a cocoon of blankets and awaking with a nose frosted over with rime, and once I do achieve vampiric heights and fall asleep with the mastery of a corpse lately dead, I am best left alone until I wake up at my usual time. I

Natasha Tsakos -

We are all potential of un-excited creativity

Natasha Tsakos -

Creativity is not a gift, it’s a mindset that you practice

Natasha Tsakos -

The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.

Charlotte Turner Smith - Marchmont

Turn your thoughts to novel writing—narrative, let it be about what it will, is read, because the mind quietly acquiesces, and it requires no trouble to think about it. On your part it will demand much less care in the composition. Never mind improbabilities—put together a sufficient number of facts—the more unlikely the better. If you are too idle to choose the trouble of inventing, collect eight or nine of the most popular works of that sort; take a piece of one, and a piece of another, and pu

Corey Ann Haydu - The Careful Undressing of Love

It’s incredible how small the English language gets when you’re trying to make it fix something.

Edward de Bono - Six Thinking Hats Revised Edition

Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experiments." You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment.

Adam Grant - Originals

Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.

Chinonye J. Chidolue -

Creativity is just about connecting things. A whole lot of nonsense put together, and diluted with a creative passion can eventually make sense. Keep thinking. Exploring. Keep trying out new ways and methods of doing things and just when you least expect, you may stumble on that next great world-changing idea that will make all the difference.

Val Uchendu -

Creativity can turn into an avalanche or a tempest, but can also flow like a meandering tributary to same destination

Michele Jennae -

Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.

Carrie Fisher - Postcards from the Edge

While she'd been drying her hair, she'd come up with a new message for her answering machine - "I'm out, deliberately avoiding your call" - and that simple burst of creativity had raised her spirits a bit.

Baris Gencel -

Creativity is not just a job position or function but it is the attitude to life

Niall Williams - History of the Rain

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Madeleine L'Engle - Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

Innovation comes from the Latin, “Innovare” - It means to change or alter things that already exist.

Phillip Gary Smith - HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life

Creativity is salve for the soul

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees’ brainpower.

Rachel Dacus - Gods of Water and Air

I love the needle poke, the red pop/ and when an arc of red drops,/ quivering and shaped like wings/ beg me to lick them off,/ quickly savoring your shoulder/ newly marked with a nearly invisible/ but indelible butterfly

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

Always dig through the thoughts underneath the words, and be authentic of being who you are.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest.

Wayne Gerard Trotman -

Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.

Tim Liwanag - First Filipino World Records

Because Filipinos are very creative and assiduous people, they will always find a way to make things happen.

Garry Fitchett -

It's cool to know I thought a book into existence.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.

Erwin Raphael McManus - The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art

Most of us are still in some small way victims of the Industrial Revolution. Whether through our grandparents, our parents, or our own experience, we were raised to believe that our place in life required compliance and conformity rather than creativity and uniqueness. We have been raised in a world where information is deemed far more important than imagination. Adults replaced dreams with discipline when they were finally ready to grow up and be responsible for their lives. Whether this contra

Jonah Lehrer - Imagine: How Creativity Works

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy.

Jonah Lehrer - Imagine: How Creativity Works

Money chases good ideas

T.S Eliot -

Because I came to seeThat I should never have been a first-rate potter.I didn't have it in me. It's strange, isn't it, That a man should have a consuming passion To do something for which he lacks the capacity? Could a man be said to have a vocation To be a second-rate potter? To be, at best,A competent copier, possessed by the cravingTo create, when one is wholly uncreative?I don't think so. For I came to see, That I had always known, at the secret moments,That I didn't have it in me. There are

David Eddings - Crystal Gorge

Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.

Luis Enrique Cavazos - The Five Virtues That Awaken Your Life

Love is a felt force when we become aware of it. Our cognition must be added to the reality of existence. This is the dance of love. We must cultivate our seeds that we plant in each other's lives. Only then we will enlarge our view of love, beauty, creativity, and purpose.

Geoff Dyer - The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New

The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage.

Michele Jennae -

We all have a god and a poet inside us. The poet, the human; the god, the divine.It is by the grace of our god that we can find the divine inspiration with which to wax poetic about our human experiences.

Oscar Bimpong -

To beat the competition and succeed in today's competitive market, you should be abreast with the change in the marketplace not forgetting about incorporating creativity and innovation as a lifestyle.

David Eddings - Crystal Gorge

He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.

Kirk Manton -

Creativity is a gift of the Creator to His creation

Baris Gencel -

Creativity is not result, it is a process!

A.E. Samaan -

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

You cannot “disrupt” without incremental innovation being part of the process.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

The very nature of open innovation is to take advantage of all sources of creativity in a more open way and make a leap of innovation management to the next level.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.

Pearl Zhu - Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

The best way to foster creativity is to help people communicate in a way that instills confidence, not fear.

Suzy Davies -

Creativity is a flame that lights up and ignites the senses

Lucy H. Pearce - Burning Woman

Together we are learning to move from raw emotion and frozen muscles into a flow which emerges deep from within. We are learning to dance our prayers, bleed our words onto the page, laugh our images onto canvas, build our dreams in the world – to transmute and transmit the energy of the Feminine through our bodies and out into the world.

Lucy H. Pearce - The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood

This is the crux of being a Creative Mother. It is more than how many jumpers you have knitted, or having an exhibition in a fancy gallery, or a bookshelf of your own books. It is about the act of living authentically whilst honoring your mother self and creative self. About saying yes to life, every part of your life, and finding how to weave them all together.

Lucy H. Pearce - The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood

Catching creativity is like catching butterflies – fast-flying, bright-colored sparks darting here and there, it requires quick wits, good eyes and desire to net them. And once you have them, you need to act fast. An idea, like a butterfly doesn’t last long: it is ephemeral. It is here, and now it is gone – so quick, grab your laptop, your pen and paper, your Dictaphone, your sketch pad, whatever your mode of expression or recording, swoop and catch.

Ted Hughes - Poetry in the Making: An Anthology

What I am going to propose is that you write a novel.As you know, the practical advantages of being able to write out your thoughts fluently are very great. For one thing, when you are used to writing them out, they present themselves, one after another. When you are not used to writing them out, they mill around among themselves usually and you see nothing but heads and tails of them when you sit down to get them on paper. I know from my own experience that the first two or three hours of every

Lucy H. Pearce - The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood

There is a juiciness to creativity, a succulence that comes up from within, a sensuality which both produces and is soothed by the act and product of creativity. Creativity is pleasing to us on a deep level. Be it the feel of clay in our hands, the colors that make us feel alive as we knit or sew, the meaning that we find in the words that we write, the energizing feel of movement as we dance and the music moves through our bodies. Taking part in creativity helps us to be more fully alive on eve

Eileen Anglin -

Dare to be different. Find the courage to accept that you may always fit in, and the peace within to stop looking for the approval of others. Just be the amazing being that you are. People who shine the light of who they truly are, are inspiring to others.

Ted Hughes - Poetry in the Making: An Anthology

In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words.

Ted Hughes - Poetry in the Making: An Anthology

If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imaginings might drive some people crazy. As it is, you are free, you can go off in any direction whatsoever, so long as the flame in your mind burns that way.

Phillip Gary Smith - HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but ingenuity is the bombshell of success

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