Motivational Quotes

Creativity

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

- Henle, Mary

Best Quotes about Creativity

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

Kroc, Ray

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Sandburg, Carl

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Caesar, Julius

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Ray, Man

The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.

Ally, Carl

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

George Lois

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Norman Podhoretz

Genius is initiative on fire.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.

Wheatley, Margaret J.

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Fromm, Erich

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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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To create something you must be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robin Green

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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.

Alfonso X

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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.

Kellogg, John

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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Dickens, Charles

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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Artaud, Antonin

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Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently.

Eric A. Burns

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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Auden, W. H.

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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

King, Florence

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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Sackville, Margaret

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Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

Houston, Jean

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Blake, William

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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

Mille, Agnes De

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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Einstein, Albert

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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Dee Hock

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A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.

Goble, Frank

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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Asch, Sholem

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When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied:'Only stand out of my light.'Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.

John W. Gardner

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Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.

I Ching

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Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Lee, Bruce

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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Doctorow, E. L.

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I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

Sting

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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.

Dorfsman, Lou

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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

Sarton, May

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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

Yeats, William Butler

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The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

Browder, Charles

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

Bono, Edward De

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The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review... again and again and again.

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Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

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All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

Miller, Henry

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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Valery, Paul

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Land, Edwin H.