Creative Quotes

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

We tend to think of innovation as difficult, but with the creative use of The 80/20 Principle innovation can be both easy and fun!

If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don't ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.

I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

The fun of getting dressed is it's a creative experience.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

Faith is a creative force. When we operate by faith, we employ the creative power of God.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

To voice something you're feeling and put observations into words with another person who is totally present is a creative act embodying soul and love.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

Weave your creative threads in the dark and then when the sun hits them, they will glisten with intricate beauty.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.

Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.

I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.