Creativity Quotes - Page 40

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

Sometimes paper is only paper," my mothers says. "Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to remember that."I know what she means. Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.

The End of every maker is himself.

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

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

Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence.

Doing better is creativity,doing faster is creativity,doing smarter is creativity,doing right is creativity.doing Exclusive is creating identity.

In our most vulnerable hour, it is helpful to remember our creative power.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

The most beautiful work of art that we can create is this life.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again.""Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

When you get right down to it, lots of things that look fancy are easy to do, and lots of things that seem easy are hard, even if you're very creative and a good artist.

In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit it--fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid them--in a sort of false pride--shyness--timorous modesty? I used to be afraid of falling in love with people--or having them think I was--that I was chasing them (how ridiculous--I am actually always running away!) but now surely--I should be mature enough to be over that. I am no longer afraid of falling in love, and the other false modesties should vanish. I cannot bear to think "par delicatesse j'ai perdu ma vie." (Because of discretion I have lost my life).

Group idea sessions rarely work. Why? Members too busy knocking down insights to hear the tap-tap of revelation

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling in the right direction

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf - almost like an evangelist.

Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.

Thinking out of the box means you are in a continuous learning mode.

The human spirit’s unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity.

We create intellectual property on a daily basis, but all of it is not worthy of attention

And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like?" I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

Imagination is a divine creativity.

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

Inside" ChildrenInside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. With regard to our creative dreams, these inside children can prevent us from living them by "acting out" in order to try to get our attention. Your inner 5-year-old is not going to patiently wait as you learn intricate metalworking techniques or study impressionist painting. Yet, your inner 10-year-old may be perfectly suited to learn and observe new skills.What's really needed is parenting of these inside children so that we bring them to age-appropriate activities.

To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own worth.

Artistes breathe and dream creativity!

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

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life’s journey and with Elemental’s Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

Transformation, on the other hand, is creating beauty from horror or destruction (or, for beginners, an actually pleasant evening with the usual family problems).

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

Creativity never disappoints".

Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.

There is a pivot point, however, to become an adult. That transition comes from recognizing and acting in accordance with your own deepest impulses. On the responsibility front, that means acting in harmony with your conscience, not because you’re going to be punished if you don’t, or paid for it if you do (heaven, enlightenment, salvation, or whatever), but because you know it to be right. On the freedom front, that means acquiescing to your deepest inspirations, following what truly compels you, even when it’s difficult to do so. These two principles brought together in the same time and space is what integrity is all about. And it is only through such integrity that you resolve conflict between the two of them: what you “know to do” and what you “want to do.

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.

How To Be An Explorer Of The World1. Always Be LOOKING (notice the ground beneath your feet.)2. Consider Everything Alive & Animate3. EVERYTHING Is Interesting. Look Closer.4. Alter Your Course Often.5. Observe For Long Durations (and short ones).6. Notice The Stories Going On Around You.7. Notice PATTERNS. Make CONNECTIONS.8. DOCUMENT Your Findings (field notes) In A VAriety Of Ways.9. Incorporate Indeterminacy.10. Observe Movement.11. Create a Personal DIALOGUE With Your Environment. Talk to it.12. Trace Things Back to Their ORIGINS.13. Use ALL of the Senses In Your Investigations.

To lose focus means to lose energy. The absolutely wrong thing to attempt when we've lost focus is to rush about struggling to pack it all back together again. Rushing is not the thing to do... Patience, peace and rocking renew ideas. Just holding the idea and the patience to rock it are what some women might call a luxury. Wild Woman says it is a necessity... Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone.The accidents happen, we’re not heroines,they happen in our lives like car crashes,books that change us, neighborhoodswe move into and come to love.Tristan and Isolde is scarcely the story,women at least should know the differencebetween love and death. No poison cup,no penance. Merely a notion that the tape-recordershould have caught some ghost of us: that tape-recordernot merely played but should have listened to us,and could instruct those after us:this we were, this is how we tried to love,and these are the forces they had ranged against us,and these are the forces we had ranged within us,within us and against us, against us and within us.

We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking...

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Something went greatly wrong in our collective history and the starting point of it was the industrial revolution. Our school systems are focussed on a single objective: to produce model citizens for society in order to feed this machine and prevent its breakdown. That’s why our school systems have no interest in developing models that actually require and stimulate useful values in people, such as courage or imagination or inventiveness. None of these are taught in our schools, on the contrary the system focuses on memorizing. Memorizing is a way of overloading the mind with mental baggage it doesn’t really need. Besides being horribly dull and stiffening the effect of 20 years of abundant memorization training is modern man: an unimaginative creature stuffed with useless knowledge and unable to clean his mind of this information dirt: our school systems are purposely constructed to deliver mental automatons that are unable to think creatively.

Without creativity you are nothing.

I want to live a creative life.

I think sometimes in artwork or writing or music, you discover something that just needs to be created. It’s not even something that you want to create... You’re just pulled into it like an instrument. Like you’re part of a bigger plan.