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Creative quotes (39) A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Category: Creative It is wise to learn; it is Godlike to create. John Godfrey Saxe Category: Creative Its hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. Its about experimenting and discovering. Gordon Mackenzie Category: Creative A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Frank Capra Category: Creative A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Creative When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell leap. Cynthia Heimel Category: Creative It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Category: Creative Not pickt from the leaves of any author but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain. Sir Thomas Browne Category: Creative One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in gets shuffled about and comes out in new and interesting ways. Peter McWilliams Category: Creative Ideas are the root of creation. Ernest Dimnet Category: Creative Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud Category: Creative Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or doing it better. John Updike Category: Creative We understand that you cant transform people who don't have internal drive and desire to create. But we also know it doesnt work to urge people to think outside the box without giving them the tools to climb out. Laurie Dunnavant Category: Creative You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed it may be the most difficult task in the world for opening the door to your own life is in the end more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe. Daisaku Ikeda Category: Creative Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. Lou Dorfsman Category: Creative The creative act lasts but a brief moment a lightning instant of give-and-take just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. Henri Cartier-Bresson Category: Creative A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. Abraham H. Maslow Category: Creative Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams Category: Creative I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art. Godfrey H. Hardy Category: Creative Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. William Plomer Category: Creative Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that the right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Category: Creative Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity. E. Christopher Zeeman Category: Creative The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. Thomas Carlyle Category: Creative Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cant get there by bus only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what youre doing. What youll discover will be wonderful. What youll discover will be yourself. Alan Alda Category: Creative Creation is a drug I can't do without. Cecil B. DeMille Category: Creative The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. Van Wyck Brooks Category: Creative The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein Category: Creative Im always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning.... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. Miles Davis Category: Creative Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process. Unknown Category: Creative The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution unless he can be even in his withdrawal creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of furfilment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued. R. Briffault Category: Creative A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Creative All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. Thomas Edward Lawrence Category: Creative An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin Land Category: Creative From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Creative He is a man of capacity who possesses considerable intellectual riches: while he is a man of genius who finds out a vein of new ore. Originality is the seeing nature differently from others and yet as it is in itself. It is not singularity or affectation but the discovery of new and valuable truth. All the world do not see the whole meaning of any object they have been looking at. Habit blinds them to some things: shortsightedness to others. Every mind is not a gauge and measure of truth. Nature has her surface and her dark recesses. She is deep obscure and infinite. It is only minds on whom she makes her fullest impressions that can penetrate her shrine or unveil her Holy of Holies. It is only those whom she has filled with her spirit that have the boldness or the power to reveal her mysteries to others. William Hazlitt Category: Creative The very essence of the creative is its novelty and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. Carl R. Rogers Category: Creative To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given a chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. Bette Davis Category: Creative The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production. George Louis Leclerc de Buffon Category: Creative The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up all we have left is our importance. Eric Hoffer Category: Creative |
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