Creativity Quotes

‘Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.’ – Scott Adams

‘Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.’ – Charles Mingus

‘Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.’ – Joe Biden

‘Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.’ – William Pollard

‘I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.’ – Brene Brown

‘Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.’ – William Plomer

‘An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.’ – Edwin Land

‘Critical thinking and curiosity are the key to creativity.’ – Amala Akkineni

‘Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.’ – James E. Faust

‘Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.’ – Nnamdi Azikiwe

‘Creativity takes courage.’ – Henri Matisse

‘There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.’ – Sophia Loren

‘Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything… whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.’ – Tina Turner

‘Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.’ – Edward de Bono

‘Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.’ – Steve Jobs

‘Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.’ – Greg Anderson

‘Creativity requires input, and that’s what research is. You’re gathering material with which to build.’ – Gene Luen Yang

‘Negativity is the enemy of creativity.’ – David Lynch

‘When creativity melds together with global issues, I believe you can bring the world together.’ – Virgil Abloh

‘Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.’ – Bo Bennett

‘Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.’ – Bill Moyers

‘Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called ‘bad’ for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they’re detrimental to our health.’ – John Rampton

‘And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It’s about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.’ – Guy Fieri

‘Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.’ – Yo-Yo Ma

‘It’s impossible to explain creativity. It’s like asking a bird, ‘How do you fly?’ You just do.’ – Eric Jerome Dickey

‘Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn’t measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘Rational thoughts never drive people’s creativity the way emotions do.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn’t have many things to play with.’ – Ann Makosinski

‘The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.’ – Alain Dehaze

‘For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.’ – Jean Dubuffet

‘Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.’ – David Binder

‘I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.’ – Bill Gates

‘In order to keep my creativity alive, I just try to enjoy life to the fullest.’ – G-Dragon

‘Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it’s not random.’ – Ken Robinson

‘You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what’s wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever’s in them rises to the surface in free play.’ – Erik Erikson

‘If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.’ – Jaime Lerner

‘The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.’ – Shepard Fairey

‘Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.’ – Jimmy Buffett

‘Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn’t grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity – the more Lego bricks you have doesn’t mean you’re going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.’ – Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

‘I’m great at a deathbed. I’ve never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I’ve given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.’ – Patch Adams

‘Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.’ – Mae Jemison

‘The interesting thing about overthinking and procrastination is sometimes they can actually evolve into innovation and creativity in the short term. Letting an idea grow in your mind in the short term with a deadline and a plan can actually lead to innovation and creativity.’ – Jay Shetty

‘The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.’ – Bob Iger

‘Creativity is an energy. It’s a precious energy, and it’s something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they’re a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can’t be taken for granted.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.’ – Dan Stevens

‘Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you’re working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.’ – Werner Herzog

‘We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.’ – Roger Wilkins

‘An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes – and as with memes in their original version.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.’ – Marco Bizzarri

‘Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction – in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.’ – Heinrich Rohrer

‘The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen… We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.’ – Iain McGilchrist

‘Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.’ – Donatella Versace

‘While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.’ – Gilda Radner

‘Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.’ – Demi Lovato

‘Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.’ – Ingmar Bergman

‘In many senses, creativity and ‘plagiarism’ are nearly indivisible.’ – David Shields

‘Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.’ – Naomi Judd

‘Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Our most valuable resources – creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention – are, in fact, unlimited.’ – David Grinspoon

‘In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.’ – Julia Cameron

‘I’m not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I’m an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that’s organized.’ – Nikki Sixx

‘I go wherever my creativity takes me.’ – Lil Wayne

‘Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.’ – Brad Paisley

‘Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries – the arts and humanities.’ – Lisa Randall

‘Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.’ – Madeleine L’Engle

‘You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It’s logic-based creativity.’ – John Romero

‘It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that’s not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.’ – Shania Twain

‘Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.’ – Victor Pinchuk

‘My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.’ – Josh Tillman

‘Whether it’s music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.’ – Idris Elba

‘A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.’ – Frank Capra

‘I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.’ – Shekhar Kapur

‘I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft – meaning experience – there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.’ – Henry Mintzberg

‘The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.’ – Otto Rank

‘Creativity is not talent but attitude.’ – Jenova Chen

‘Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.’ – Ray Kroc

‘Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.’ – Julia Margaret Cameron

‘Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.’ – Yoko Ono

‘I don’t see myself as a hero because what I’m doing is self-interested: I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.’ – Edward Snowden

‘Only individual creativity can bring about real social development.’ – Cai Guo-Qiang

‘I think suffering has always been an incentive for my creativity.’ – Sanjay Leela Bhansali

‘Creativity is an import-export business.’ – Ethan Zuckerman

‘Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.’ – Mark Frauenfelder

‘If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be.’ – Stjepan Hauser

‘Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it’s produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.’ – Ken Robinson

‘I don’t believe there’s a cap on creativity and passion.’ – Deadmau5

‘Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.’ – Catherine Tate

‘Amid apocalyptic dystopia, ‘Fahrenheit 451”s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization’s ashes.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘But out of limitations comes creativity.’ – Debbie Allen

‘Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘I hope I haven’t grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don’t want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I’m holding on to that.’ – Catherine Hardwicke

‘To me there’s no creativity without boundaries. If you’re gonna write a sonnet, it’s 14 lines, so it’s solving the problem within the container.’ – Lorne Michaels

‘The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don’t want to dwell in same place too long.’ – Lynn Nottage

‘Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.’ – Earl Nightingale

‘Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.’ – Tom Barrett

‘Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it’s because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.’ – Abbas Kiarostami

‘Trying to force creativity is never good.’ – Sarah McLachlan

‘Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.’ – Mary Daly

‘Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it’s what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.’ – Jim Hunt

‘I think the idea of art kills creativity.’ – Douglas Adams

‘Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.’ – Julia Cameron

‘My dream is to have a creativity barn, in my back yard, which is full of musical instruments and every kind of paint and oils and paper, and you can just go in and make something.’ – Allison Janney

‘Comfort is the killer of creativity.’ – David Choe

‘We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It’s a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you’re in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.’ – Bill Viola

‘Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.’ – Martin Villeneuve

‘I think if you’re everyone’s cup of tea, that probably means you’re a little bit boring, or you’re not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it’s dangerous and scary: where you’re not comfortable.’ – Kacey Musgraves

‘One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.’ – Edward de Bono

‘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.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘Empowering the creativity of our developers is at the core of everything we do at Roblox.’ – David Baszucki

‘I didn’t invent satire. I didn’t come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people’s way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.’ – Bassem Youssef

‘Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.’ – Varg Vikernes

‘A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.’ – Mary Garden

‘I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.’ – Blythe Masters

‘Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.’ – Gail Sheehy

‘When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.’ – Neil Strauss

‘God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.’ – Erwin McManus

‘To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe’s intricate diversity – and its lost creativity.’ – Timothy Garton Ash

‘True creativity often starts where language ends.’ – Arthur Koestler

‘Regret leads to negativity, and negativity kills creativity.’ – Carol Channing

‘Creativity has no boundaries.’ – Neil Nitin Mukesh

‘Los Angeles is a melting pot for all different cultures and creativity. It’s really a ground to cultivate artists.’ – Omarion

‘Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.’ – Peter Max

‘Creativity is always a leap of faith. You’re faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.’ – Julia Cameron

‘Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.’ – Yanni

‘Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.’ – John Updike

‘Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘I deal with creativity all the time. What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers but also make their ideas livable and concrete.’ – Bernard Arnault

‘Creativity’s about ownership.’ – John Maeda

‘Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.’ – Steve Vai

‘Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.’ – Francois Englert

‘I want people to continue to be creative and to value creativity.’ – Lil B

‘The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.’ – Unknown

‘The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‘What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?’ And, ‘How does creativity apply across the board?” – Kanye West

‘What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.’ – Lois Capps

‘As is the case with all good things in life – love, good manners, language, cooking – personal creativity is required only rarely.’ – Leon Krier

‘Being surrounded by creativity and talent is very enriching – not in terms of money but in terms of the soul and the spirit.’ – Antoine Arnault

‘Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.’ – Paul Rodgers

‘There is no science in creativity. If you don’t give yourself room to fail, you won’t innovate.’ – Bob Iger

‘Talent in cooking can be described as skill, creativity, your instincts, how do you approach a problem.’ – Alvin Leung

‘It’s incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.’ – Jehane Noujaim

‘I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She’s taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.’ – Carole King

‘I’m fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.’ – Alex Steffen

‘Creativity flows when curiosity is stoked.’ – Neil Blumenthal

‘That’s exactly why I came into music in the first place: to be inspired by what I hear to make it something else, to make it my own. That’s how culture, creativity, moves, isn’t it?’ – Jimmy Page

‘You can’t just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.’ – Ken Robinson

‘I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‘X100PRE’ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.’ – Bad Bunny

‘I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.’ – Kurt Cobain

‘The ‘We Have Overcome’ generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.’ – Manning Marable

‘Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.’ – Julia Cameron

‘There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.’ – Brene Brown

‘If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.’ – Russell Smith

‘I think of myself as a creator, and I think that will always shine through in any medium that I decide to pick up. If you’re creative and you’re an artist, you could be doing anything and that creativity will shine.’ – Julia Fox

‘The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don’t like to use the word efficiency. It’s creativity. It’s a belief that every person counts.’ – Jack Welch

‘Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It’s such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.’ – David Lynch

‘It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.’ – Florence Welch

‘Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.’ – Adam Grant

‘In my experience, poor people are the world’s greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.’ – Muhammad Yunus

‘I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.’ – David Walliams

‘Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it’s essence tends to become creativity.’ – Jack Bowman

‘When you start fooling around with drugs, you’re hurting your creativity, you’re hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don’t kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul’s dead, you’ve got nothing to offer, anyway.’ – Paul Stanley

‘The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘You can’t buy something which does not exist. In a way, let’s make things exist and then judge later. Don’t cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.’ – Ross Lovegrove

‘I’m experimental by nature… always exploring my creativity.’ – Christina Aguilera

‘I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there’s not a safe environment for that.’ – Jeremy Jordan

‘Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.’ – Chuck Jones

‘America is composed of all kinds of people – part of the difficulty in our nation today is due to the fact that we are not utilising the abilities and the talents of other brown and black peoples and females that have something to bring to the creativity and the rejuvenation and the revitalisation of this country.’ – Shirley Chisholm

‘My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career – total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.’ – Raymond Loewy

‘I apply the term ‘creativity’ broadly… it’s problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that’s where creativity comes in.’ – Edwin Catmull

‘Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.’ – Vik Muniz

‘All I’m trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.’ – Joe Bonamassa

‘Scheduled shipping is one of many inventions that has made New York a global capital of innovation and creativity – from Willis Carrier’s invention of air conditioning in Buffalo and George Eastman’s breakthrough film technology in Rochester to the rise of hip-hop in the South Bronx and the world’s first cell phone call in Midtown Manhattan.’ – Joe Gebbia

‘Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.’ – Mickey Hart

‘As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid’s grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.’ – Bill O’Reilly

‘There’s no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.’ – Frank Abagnale

‘My parents were definitely encouraging with creativity.’ – Yung Lean

‘Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!’ – Camille Paglia

‘There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.’ – Sophia Loren

‘When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.’ – Biz Stone

‘Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.’ – Jackie Gleason

‘Yosemite really brings out my creativity. It’s such a powerful place, there’s some sort of amazing energy going on that fuels me.’ – Dean Potter

‘Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words – usually lousy ones – for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.’ – Amy Waldman

‘The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.’ – Tadao Ando

‘Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.’ – Martin Seligman

‘What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, ‘If you’ve never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you’re not really an intellectual.” – Alison Gopnik

‘Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.’ – Edward de Bono

‘I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the television to watch a movie or play Nintendo or Xbox. I think there is nothing better for killing creativity and imagination.’ – Alexandra Adornetto

‘Food has always been at the frontier of creativity.’ – Marcel Wanders

‘Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.’ – Edwin Land

‘Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn’t it?’ – David Droga

‘When you’re making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime… it’s going to lack originality and creativity, so I try to get my inspiration from different genres.’ – Shinichiro Watanabe

‘I feel I’ve been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That’s why I’ve been able to keep going.’ – Robin Trower

‘Every time I start a new work, I try to be different and to start with a new perspective, so I search for a new idea, something which gives me a new way to access my creativity.’ – Ludovico Einaudi

‘Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.’ – Tony Buzan

‘You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles… there’s a lot of creativity and brain working. There’s a lot to model trains that people don’t realize.’ – Gary Coleman

‘The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I’m just telling a story.’ – Shonda Rhimes

‘The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that’s not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That’s the reality of it.’ – Jimmy Kimmel

‘I want my children to experience as much creativity as possible. That’s what sets your mind on fire.’ – Angela Bassett

‘I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.’ – Jean Houston

‘What you need to have is that link between your education and what you do. Make creativity part of the subject.’ – Grant Imahara

‘You have to learn how to read contracts, how to position yourself, and about marketing. That is why you find the most successful artists are the ones who can mix creativity with business.’ – Colm Wilkinson

‘I love the process of collaborating on music, mostly for the creativity that comes out of it.’ – Hardwell

‘The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.’ – Henri Poincare

‘Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.’ – Bill Gates

‘Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.’ – William Shatner

‘I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.’ – Ken Robinson

‘Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I’m a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.’ – Chris Brown

‘Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.’ – Charles Mingus

‘My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.’ – Greg Iles

‘Creativity is not just for artists. It’s for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it’s for engineers trying to solve a problem; it’s for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.’ – Joni Mitchell

‘Roblox began with just 100 players and a handful of creators who inspired one another, unlocking this groundswell of creativity, collaboration, and imagination that continues to grow.’ – David Baszucki

‘Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.’ – Ross Perot

‘I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don’t feel you’re reaching something new, then don’t do it.’ – George Michael

‘Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things – like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.’ – David Mitchell

‘Creativity and self-destruction sometimes come in the same package.’ – John Densmore

‘When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there’s so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time – World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.’ – Eric Betzig

‘The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.’ – Zadie Smith

‘My first five or six years in L.A., I was just trying to get two cents together to stay here. Playing Jason Stackhouse on ‘True Blood’ put me in a position, financially, to make decisions based on creativity, to choose roles based on whether I connected with them. I love the Jason Stackhouse character… But I also love stepping out of his shoes.’ – Ryan Kwanten

‘When one gets time duration, one becomes very restricted, and hence, creativity suffers.’ – Atif Aslam

‘Going back to the technical track of my life, note that I have been designing electronic products, both of the consumer and defense electronics variety, since Pluto was a pup. Many of these products broke new ground… creativity at work!’ – Ralph H. Baer

‘My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like – strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.’ – Ty Segall

‘Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.’ – Robert M. Pirsig

‘If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks.’ – Marco Bizzarri

‘People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That’s normal.’ – Mike Love

‘If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.’ – Alessandro Michele

‘Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids’ creativity.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Creativity is a game changer. That’s true of society, in advertising and in life.’ – David Droga

‘I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.’ – Paul Wellstone

‘I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.’ – Edward Enninful

‘For us, creativity means thinking about the lives of our audience and how to connect with them.’ – Anna Wintour

‘The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.’ – Astro Teller

‘Together with Adobe, we’re committed to fostering creativity and a culture of teamwork for our shared customers so they can unlock the opportunities of today’s rapidly evolving workplace.’ – Peggy Johnson

‘Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don’t want to work at it, and it doesn’t come out of the sky.’ – Iris Apfel

‘A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.’ – Terry Teachout

‘A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.’ – David Lynch

‘Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.’ – Jason Silva

”It’s Everyday Bro’ started with me talking about the things I do on a day-to-day basis. From there, the creativity was unleashed, and the song was the result.’ – Jake Paul

‘I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.’ – Douglas Adams

‘I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don’t want to be turned into a pop princess; that’s not who I am.’ – Brynn Cartelli

‘Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers’ ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.’ – Ron Kind

‘Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.’ – Adam Grant

‘I’m encouraging other people, whether they’re professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity.’ – Ted Dwane

‘I like the uniqueness and creativity you can have on a basketball court; there’s always a different way to score. Obviously, you have teammates, so it’s easier to draw up plays, and tennis, you have your patterns and where you should hit based on percentage.’ – Nick Kyrgios

‘There’s a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.’ – Ken Robinson

‘I don’t separate architecture, design, or culture. What’s more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.’ – Neri Oxman

‘Walking by water frees your creativity. I don’t know how it works – there’s something about it that’s liberating.’ – Val McDermid

‘More than just a zoo, the Animal Kingdom is an extraordinary experience of animals, rides and performances. The exhibits have the scale and creativity you associate with Disney. The African safari ride is terrific and worth riding several times.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.’ – Kanye West

‘Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.’ – William Bernbach

‘Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.’ – Andy Hobsbawm

‘Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas.’ – Mick Hucknall

‘I came up with all kinds of stuff. That was part of being great and having creativity. I’m not just bragging about myself. I’m just saying.’ – Terry Funk

‘Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.’ – Susan L. Taylor

‘I used to take the kids in groups and, just for my own creativity, just start to play acoustic guitar and role play with them. I had a popular program and all of a sudden I was teaching teachers how to be creative.’ – Peaches

‘The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there’s plenty of anger left.’ – Ingmar Bergman

‘Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.’ – F. Sionil Jose

‘I feel with ELP that I wasn’t making the most of my life and I wasn’t making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don’t want to do that. Life is to short.’ – Greg Lake

‘We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, open city where anything could happen and anyone could be star. Rents were cheap, creativity was encouraged, and bottle service was still 20 years away. That was the era the Club Kids came into.’ – James St. James

‘Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage – or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.’ – Julia Cameron

‘Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.’ – Umberto Eco

‘I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.’ – Daphne Guinness

‘I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.’ – Tony Hsieh

‘We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.’ – Bill Gates

‘I’m a Marvel fan, and I think this particular world that ‘Doctor Strange’ goes into is really, really, really exciting. I’m really interested as both an actor and a fan to see what’s done in this particular world. It’s all about creativity. It’s not about everything exploding at the end. It’s about something very different.’ – Tilda Swinton

‘I take my creativity, I give it to the world, and I do it from the heart.’ – Rev. Run

‘I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There’s no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that’s acceptable.’ – Mark Hoppus

‘The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.’ – Alessandro Michele

‘The funny thing is that when you have any form of presentation to your band, meaning you have the foresight to see outside of your creativity, you have a bigger vision.’ – Nikki Sixx

‘Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.’ – David Rockefeller

‘Where once Lego offered a whimsical form of escapism into the world of the subconscious, encouraging creativity and imagination, it’s transformed into a rigid ‘box ticking’ discipline where children are encouraged to build by conformity.’ – Ben Fogle

‘As chefs, especially pastry chefs, your creativity plays such an important part in your daily work. We truly do have a blank canvas to work with every time we create a new dish.’ – Johnny Iuzzini

‘I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I’m a weird kind of animal.’ – Brian May

‘The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.’ – Vladimir Kramnik

‘A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it’s not the ‘popular’ choice.’ – Tabatha Coffey

‘You don’t have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.’ – Carl Honore

‘Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled.’ – Richard Hayne

‘In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.’ – Shimon Peres

‘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

‘There’s a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don’t necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones. I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music. I think that’s happening. With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.’ – Flume

‘For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘It’s a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages – the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side – and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.’ – Ellen Greene

‘I think my whole career has been marked – or marred – by what people presume about me. But even that’s fed back into the creativity. I’m saying that I’m about contradiction, that you can’t put me into a box.’ – Roisin Murphy

‘Whether it be a bolder lip, a dewier cheek, a more lush lash, or an exceptionally extravagant eye, no time is better than the present for unleashing your cosmetic creativity.’ – Pat McGrath

‘The body, in ‘La Belle Noiseuse,’ was the source of the artist’s creativity.’ – Emmanuelle Beart

‘I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it’s going to be over. It’s not that way; it’s so energetic. That’s where all the energy and creativity is.’ – David Lynch

‘Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it’s easy to thwart.’ – Adam Grant

‘In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn’t have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.’ – Issey Miyake

‘He lives with his creativity in high gear.’ – John Travolta

‘Written reports stifle creativity.’ – Ross Perot

‘Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important – they just don’t understand what it is.’ – Ken Robinson

‘We must prepare people to be nimble enough to adapt to an ever-evolving marketplace. And we must help them develop skills that will be valued no matter what tomorrow’s jobs are – skills like creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration.’ – Tae Yoo

‘When you move handheld, and the director of photography has the courage to shoot with no lights, the set becomes a space of creativity and freedom where actors can move wherever they want to move.’ – Jean-Marc Vallee

‘I’ve never been a frustrated person because I learnt at a very young age that the frustration I had inside of me had to do with creativity and the ability to transform that into action. I realized very early my restlessness had to be channelled into things I could do.’ – Johan Renck

‘I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.’ – David Rockefeller

‘For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase ‘the play of ideas’ and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.’ – Julia Cameron

‘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.’ – Jean Houston

‘The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.’ – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

‘Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.’ – Jens Martin Skibsted

‘And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can’t be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.’ – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

‘Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.’ – David Duchovny

‘Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we’re walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.’ – Kate Klise

‘My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.’ – Biz Stone

‘Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to – telephone poles, trees, buildings, other runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances, so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance.’ – Don Kardong

‘I really think that if there’s any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you’re doing, you’re not doing it as well as you can. Don’t think about publishing, don’t think about editors, don’t think about marketplace.’ – Andre Dubus III

‘Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can’t even begin to understand or explain.’ – Joe Bonamassa

‘When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.’ – Julia Cameron

‘Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They’re the people you want to bet on.’ – Adam Grant

‘Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process – reworking, reworking, and reworking again until a flawed story finds its through line or a hollow character finds its soul.’ – Edwin Catmull

‘I feel at various times in my life that I’ve been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.’ – Jodie Foster

‘People think, for some reason, that I don’t care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don’t want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that’s just trying to help people.’ – Jaden Smith

‘Creativity for the greater good is where I aspire to be, and I mean that on several levels: of course, working with worthy causes that need support but also not just contributing to the pollution of crap advertising.’ – David Droga

‘Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.’ – William Bernbach

‘Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.’ – Edward de Bono

‘We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.’ – Edward de Bono

‘Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?’ – Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

‘Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.’ – Rita Mae Brown

‘Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.’ – Rollo May

‘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.’ – Arianna Huffington

‘Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.’ – Nadine Gordimer

‘Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.’ – Florence King

‘The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.’ – Lewis Mumford

‘Creativity is an advertising agency’s most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.’ – Jef I. Richards

‘Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.’ – Al Gore

‘A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind’s heritage.’ – Abdelaziz Bouteflika

‘Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.’ – Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

‘Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world – the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.’ – George Pataki

‘The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.’ – Sholem Asch

‘Prediction by analogy -creativity – is so pervasive we normally don’t notice it.’ – Jeff Hawkins

‘I don’t think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity – it is not a level playing field.’ – Scott Bakula

‘Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.’ – Brian Aldiss

‘It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one’s own creativity – that’s a much tougher matter.’ – Brian Aldiss

‘There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different – I love L.A.!’ – Naomi Watts

‘The desire to be rewarded for one’s creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.’ – Richard Stallman

‘Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It’s absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.’ – Paul Schrader

‘We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.’ – Shirley Williams

‘When I think about my new CD, the word ‘joy’ comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.’ – George Duke

‘Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.’ – Robert Evans

‘Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.’ – Giacomo Meyerbeer

‘Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘Creativity shouldn’t be following radio; it should be the other way around.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘I’ve found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.’ – Julian Lennon

‘When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.’ – Joichi Ito

‘Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.’ – Joichi Ito

‘Music. It’s all creativity right here, right now.’ – Billy Higgins

‘But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.’ – William Julius Wilson

‘On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.’ – Mark Udall

‘I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.’ – Daniel Smith

‘And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.’ – Billy Sherwood

‘You can’t suppress creativity, you can’t suppress innovation.’ – James Daly

‘I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.’ – Jim Capaldi

‘Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.’ – George Shearing

‘I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There’s where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge.’ – Richard M. Daley

‘It seems there’s a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.’ – Nicholas Lea

‘The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?’ – Alva Noto

‘Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.’ – Jimmy Carl Black

‘I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.’ – David Amram

‘I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.’ – Josh Lucas

‘It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry’s decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.’ – Robert Shea

‘What we do now is to be valued – but we need to do more, so that it’s more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we’re able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.’ – Siobhan Davies

‘Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy – entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.’ – Donald Norman

‘People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.’ – Helmut Newton

‘Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.’ – Jay Inslee

‘And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.’ – William Shatner

‘I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It’s a metaphor for women’s lives, their creativity.’ – Vera Wang

‘Creativity is much better when it’s free. Someone can take it and sell it if that’s what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living – that would be the best scenario.’ – Matthew Sweet

‘The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.’ – Robert Trout

‘What I really need is for people to know that I don’t just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things.’ – Suzanne Somers

‘Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.’ – Keenen Ivory Wayans

‘Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you’ll discover the creativity that connects you with others.’ – Martha Beck

‘So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.’ – Duncan Sheik

‘I’m fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.’ – Duncan Sheik

‘Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.’ – Dee Hock

‘Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.’ – Tommy Shaw

‘I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.’ – F. Murray Abraham

‘You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.’ – Patty Duke

‘It really hasn’t been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.’ – Peter Bart

‘We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.’ – Johannes Rau

‘My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.’ – Robert Mapplethorpe

‘Almost everything I’ve done, I’ve done through my own creativity. I don’t think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.’ – Buddy Rich

‘Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody’s creativity. It doesn’t exist. Nature didn’t deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.’ – Jeffrey Katzenberg

‘I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?’ – David Byrne

‘Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.’ – Helmut Jahn

‘I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.’ – Helmut Jahn

‘I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer’s creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.’ – Laura Hillenbrand

‘I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.’ – Chaim Potok

‘One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.’ – Henry Kravis

‘We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.’ – Lawrence Lessig

‘If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.’ – Lawrence Lessig

‘I’m 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I’d also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people – I don’t want to judge it or anything – but it’s not for me. It would destroy my creativity.’ – Henry Rollins

‘If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.’ – Trevor Nunn

‘I think I’m most proud of my family right now. I’m more into that then I’ve ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.’ – Merle Haggard

‘To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions – the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.’ – Lukas Foss

‘I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn’t mean they’re going to make it.’ – Rita Dove

‘I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.’ – Jane Badler

‘Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD – the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.’ – David Neeleman

‘I love to cook comfort food. I’ll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.’ – Reese Witherspoon

‘I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.’ – Gilda Radner

‘Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn’t mean only artistic creativity, although that’s part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.’ – Matt Groening

‘Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.’ – Ben Okri

‘My creativity and my political work are linked. I don’t do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.’ – Holly Near

‘Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.’ – Dee Hock

‘Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.’ – Mason Cooley

‘You cannot teach creativity – how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.’ – Mario Vargas Llosa

‘God is creating at every moment of the world’s existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.’ – Arthur Peacocke

‘If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.’ – Jim Gilmore

‘You can’t take a character anywhere they don’t expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.’ – Richard Price

‘A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.’ – Wentworth Miller

‘Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.’ – Michael Mann

‘You can’t fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you’re doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.’ – Guy Laliberte

‘I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.’ – Guy Laliberte

‘I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven’t explored yet. It’s infinite what we can apply our creativity to.’ – Guy Laliberte

‘But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome – people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘So this is the space during tutoring hours. It’s very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students’ work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.’ – Dave Eggers

‘My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.’ – Gwen Stefani

‘Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, ‘Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I’m here.’ It’s another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I’m going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.’ – Shania Twain

‘But the – look, I think that this – the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most – smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.’ – Jay Carney

‘I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.’ – LL Cool J

‘Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.’ – Walter Isaacson

‘Anytime I have an idea, I’ll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don’t have to dream it all out of thin air. I don’t have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.’ – Neil Peart

‘I take conscious breaks for myself ’cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it’s important.’ – Brandy Norwood

‘In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.’ – Edward Felten

‘I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.’ – Vidal Sassoon

‘All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.’ – Freddy Adu

‘My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.’ – Giada De Laurentiis

‘President Obama’s view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!’ – Mitt Romney

‘When you’re making an independent film what you don’t have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.’ – Matthew Lillard

‘Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.’ – Wesley Snipes

‘Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what – one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it’s our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it’s our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.’ – Caroline Kennedy

‘What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.’ – Claire McCaskill

‘After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.’ – Angela Cartwright

‘The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.’ – Paul Ryan

‘A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you’ve got to think about the legs of your collection – essentially, how the line is going to move forward.’ – Alexander Wang

‘A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.’ – Robert Rodriguez

‘There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.’ – Ron Ben-Israel

‘The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn’t going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people.’ – Rob Portman

‘The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.’ – Jonathan Ive

‘Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels.’ – Max Azria

‘If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes – the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War – they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.’ – Christian Lacroix

‘So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘From an early age I didn’t buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.’ – Adam Clayton

‘It’s hard to force creativity and humor.’ – Al Yankovic

‘I’m interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I’m sort of a performance rat.’ – Dane Cook

‘I love being on stage if I’m not on a set. If I’m at home, I’m usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I’m ready willing and able to give it a shot.’ – Dane Cook

‘I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.’ – Shakira

‘Working on films where the money’s more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don’t feel comfortable.’ – Guy Pearce

‘India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.’ – Pranab Mukherjee

‘I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.’ – Jon Favreau

‘If I weren’t performing, I’d be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone’s problems – like a beauty therapist!’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he’s going to write poetry or songs.’ – Roger Waters

‘As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you’re always ultimately going to be saying somebody else’s words. I don’t think I’d have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I’d love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.’ – Daniel Radcliffe

‘Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.’ – Dalton McGuinty

‘I try to stay focused on my creativity.’ – Christina Aguilera

‘In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.’ – Daniel Day-Lewis

‘I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.’ – Scott Adams

‘In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can’t use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.’ – Scott Adams

‘Work is the opposite of creativity.’ – Raoul Vaneigem

‘I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It’s a huge opportunity.’ – Jane Pauley

‘I think we’re returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That’s where we’re heading. And it’ll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.’ – Jane Siberry

‘I think it’s important for whatever you are doing, even if it’s a collection, to seek outside advice. If your world becomes too insular, it limits your creativity.’ – Georgina Chapman

‘The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody’s going to make it better than somebody else, and that’s the creativity of it. It’s like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody’s gonna play it better.’ – Dweezil Zappa

‘As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won’t work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.’ – Heston Blumenthal

‘For me beauty is valued more than anything – the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.’ – Oscar Niemeyer

‘I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.’ – Martina McBride

‘My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.’ – Howard Gardner

‘The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘I think what’s wrong with the fashion world, particularly men’s fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.’ – Macklemore

‘You know, ‘Project Runway’ was a really special show, and we had a great five seasons with it. We loved that show, and we loved the stories that it brought to Bravo and the creativity. And it was a magic five seasons.’ – Andy Cohen

‘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.’ – Jonah Lehrer

‘Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It’s a skill.’ – Jonah Lehrer

‘Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we’re rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.’ – Jonah Lehrer

‘I’m kind of shocked that it’s taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don’t have the luxury of a film’s big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.’ – James Van Der Beek

‘Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It’s a symbol.’ – Bernard Arnault

‘Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don’t think she’s dating for love – I think she’s dating for creativity. So let’s get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.’ – Patti Stanger

‘My shaven head is my way of saying ‘I wont take no for an answer,’ it is my way of saying ‘I believe in my creativity and artistry.” – Chrisette Michele

”The Dance Scene’ is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.’ – Christina Perri

‘I’ve always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.’ – Zoe Kazan

‘A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.’ – Jane Smiley

‘Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.’ – Roy Blount, Jr.

‘The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while ‘Foster the People’ plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.’ – Maggie Stiefvater

‘I think that everything is part of creativity – the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.’ – Melanie Laurent

‘If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.’ – Michael Mandelbaum

‘Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don’t try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite… my voice is what it is, no matter what I’m singing, it’s always going to sound like me. There’s not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven’t put any boundaries on anything.’ – Teddy Thompson

‘I associate creativity with independent music.’ – Miguel

‘We need to have a modicum of faith in people’s common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the face of great difficulties and obstacles. If people could keep society running in the aftermath of the Black Death, they could keep it running after the U.S. government defaulted on its debt.’ – Robert Higgs

‘I guess I started running when I was about 18 and… I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.’ – Ellie Goulding

‘What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.’ – Joshua Foer

‘I’m pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun.’ – Reggie Watts

‘The Grateful Dead, they’re my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.’ – Bill Walton

‘All I have, really, is my creativity.’ – Jack Abramoff

‘I mean, ‘8¬Ω’ to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.’ – Baz Luhrmann

‘Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity – all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.’ – Lauren Conrad

‘Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.’ – Maurice Saatchi

‘I think that a lot of people just don’t understand creativity.’ – Swizz Beatz

‘What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There’s no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they’re around you – even those closest to you – when you’re in that whirl of creativity and you’re grabbing those things out of the air, there’s no rational process.’ – Ronnie Dunn

‘I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don’t ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.’ – Jesse Tyler Ferguson

‘When you’re heartbroken, you’re at your most creative – you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don’t worry – I’m very capable of making myself discontented.’ – Florence Welch

‘You’ll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.’ – Chick Corea

‘I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice as difficult as writing either history or fiction.’ – Philippa Gregory

‘When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I’m from theater, and that’s really what theater feels like.’ – Adam Shankman

‘It’s hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that’s what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.’ – Tommy Mottola

‘I’m feeling more and more thoughts that aren’t songs, just reflections. I’m always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I’ve been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.’ – Ana Tijoux

‘Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.’ – Naveen Jain

‘I’m a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there’s no such thing as rules.’ – Josh Trank

‘I find that stability is good for my creativity.’ – Ellen Forney

‘Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter’s quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.’ – Jennifer Chiaverini

‘Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.’ – Basmah bint Saud

‘Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.’ – Grimes

‘I suppose I’m interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.’ – Aleksandar Hemon

‘Of course creativity is a mystery. We don’t know what drives it or what constitutes it. It’s one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it’s impossible to define.’ – Daniel Tammet

‘In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children’s curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore – in short, to play.’ – Darell Hammond

‘One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don’t know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn’t deal with college.’ – Nolan Bushnell

‘Creativity is every company’s first driver. It’s where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.’ – Nolan Bushnell

‘I guess I’d like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.’ – Nolan Bushnell

‘There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.’ – Kay Redfield Jamison

‘I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn’t call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother’s peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read ‘The Piano Fairy Girl.” – Rebecca Wells

‘I’ve always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don’t sit down and think: ‘What political message can I sell?’ I love the creativity of it.’ – Randa Abdel-Fattah

‘All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past – by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.’ – Gary Hamel

‘Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author’s manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.’ – Tabatha Coffey

‘Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there’s a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.’ – Amy Chua

‘Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it’s been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It’s very surreal. It’s almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.’ – Seth Gabel

‘One of the changes I’m driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call ‘the challenger mindset.’ Let’s understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don’t yet know they need.’ – Stephen Elop

‘I’m very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don’t really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.’ – David Karp

‘Sexual living is a reflection of God’s love for us. It has two key qualities, which is faithfulness and creativity of new life.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.’ – Ferran Adria

‘What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That’s a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.’ – Lawrence Bender

‘Being scared is really a good thing. It’s being scared of being scared that’s bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity – that’s what an artist is, that’s what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.’ – Lawrence Bender

‘Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what’s happening in other parts of my life. I can’t help myself. It’s been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It’s a condition in me.’ – Mickey Drexler

‘I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven’t had time to exercise that creativity.’ – Elisabeth Hasselbeck

‘I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.’ – Geoffrey S. Fletcher

‘I’ve always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you’re… unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.’ – Aubrey McClendon

‘Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it’s empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.’ – Adam Braun

‘Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.’ – Dhani Jones

‘I like Louboutins, but some women think they can just put on Louboutins and they’re stylish, and that’s not the case. Someone can go into T.J. Maxx or Ross, pick out some clothes and own it. As long as you have that eye for creativity and know how to put it together, it’s so much more interesting.’ – Dhani Jones

‘I was at Disney for about four years, so I made good friends there. It was a time of not a lot of creativity. It was the end of the first great era, with a few of the original animators. They called them the Nine Old Men. I learned a lot from them, but it wasn’t going to be a future home for me.’ – Henry Selick

‘I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with ‘House of Cards’ and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn’t happened there yet.’ – Henry Selick

‘Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.’ – Henry Selick

‘I find N.Y. very inspiring; there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in N.Y. like nowhere else.’ – Charlotte Ronson

‘Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can’t compete with.’ – Graydon Carter

‘As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.’ – Henry Paulson

‘I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don’t know and you hope – all these things are in play all the time. I think it’s what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.’ – Eric Fischl

‘People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.’ – Bertrand Piccard

‘I’m happy whenever I’m in a rehearsal room. I’ve always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.’ – Laurie Metcalf

‘The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back – to be ‘taught’ – is disturbing.’ – Rachel Cusk

‘Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.’ – Rachel Cusk

‘There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there’s a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.’ – Neil Patrick Harris

‘I think that that’s why artists make art – it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.’ – Alex Grey

‘I use a lot of different words for God – infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And ‘God’ is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It’s the great mystery.’ – Alex Grey

‘The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.’ – Brian Greene

‘I’ve thought about the idea of, ‘Can happiness and creativity co-exist?’ So much of what I’ve done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, ‘There isn’t an answer, necessarily.” – Conor Oberst

‘It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.’ – Aimee Mullins

‘Choreography and creativity – it’s my matrix; let’s see where we can move.’ – Wayne McGregor

‘Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I’m vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I’ve ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that ‘fetch’ is now the word I want to use to mean ‘cool.” – Erin McKean

‘Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn’t just a platform for technological innovation: It’s showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.’ – Erin McKean

‘A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.’ – Margaret Heffernan

‘If the company depends entirely on you – your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma – nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.’ – Margaret Heffernan

‘There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they’re really very different. I feel like they’re just two different ways to channel my creativity.’ – Mandy Moore

‘There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.’ – Caity Lotz

‘I’m very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I’m really concentrated.’ – Christian Louboutin

‘Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what’s best about entrepreneurship.’ – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

‘Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.’ – Geoff Mulgan

‘A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.’ – Giles Duley

‘In the future, I think it’s pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a part of global dialog, global business, and global creativity. People who know how to negotiate collective intelligence networks are going to be in a good position to contribute to global society.’ – Jane McGonigal

‘I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That’s when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.’ – Jill Scott

‘To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you’re used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.’ – Erin Wasson

‘You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don’t want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that’s coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.’ – Gale Harold

‘I don’t spend a lot of time watching my performances after the fact. I suck at playing video games, but I’m a fan of the creativity, the brilliance, and the possibility of the industry.’ – Jennifer Hale

‘I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that ‘spotlight’ the individual’s role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life.’ – Chris Jordan

‘Without sounding pretentious, it’s nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.’ – Jaime Winstone

‘! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.’ – Tan Le

‘I don’t rehearse on either of my shows, ‘Family Feud’ or my talk show. I never rehearse with the guests. I don’t want to have any preconceived thoughts, notions, because that kills my creativity as a host and as a stand up.’ – Steve Harvey

‘I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn’t the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn’t something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.’ – Psy

‘In the end, all that time I spent in the ‘Star Wars’ universe fostered galaxies of creativity and made me a better person here on Earth, because it taught me that everyone counts. That’s why I can sincerely and with a straight face say: ‘May the Force be with you.” – Chris Hardwick

‘If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That’s what keeps the creativity alive.’ – Christian Louboutin

‘Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.’ – Kristin Armstrong

‘Girls shouldn’t throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children – to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I’m just thrilled about that.’ – Pam Ferris

‘The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone’s options. And although people don’t talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what’s rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity.’ – Tracy Chapman

‘My father probably – he had flashes of creativity – he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.’ – Frank Gehry

‘I guess the thing that I’m most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It’s the source of my creativity.’ – Erica Jong

‘London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home for Starbucks and a significant gateway into Europe.’ – Howard Schultz

‘What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.’ – Goenawan Mohamad

‘The one thing about my life that’s different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that’s just good for your creativity.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that’s not even art, but something universal and bigger.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.’ – Penn Jillette

‘Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity – instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.’ – Umberto Eco

‘I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for ‘Unfinished Music,’ number one, and number two, with my artwork – I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that’s how I was looking at it.’ – Yoko Ono

‘Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.’ – Athol Fugard

‘I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.’ – Jack Nicklaus

‘You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I’ve ever done was an exercise in creativity. I’ve always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that’s where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.’ – Greg Graffin

‘When I don’t have a good time, it’s usually because there’s a stiffness that stifles creativity.’ – Garry Shandling

‘My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.’ – Alain de Botton

‘Whether it’s an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they’re all done with integrity. They’re all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I don’t think it’s a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it’s got your name on it.’ – Marc Jacobs

‘I am severely dyslexic, so I’m not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don’t excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.’ – Raha Moharrak

‘You can never forget the time you’re living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you’re living in is the most important thing.’ – Donatella Versace

‘I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It’s more of a rock n’ roll thing.’ – Caitlin Moran

‘Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.’ – Muhammad Yunus

‘After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.’ – Gwyneth Paltrow

‘What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone’s ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.’ – Ashwin Sanghi

‘I feed on other people’s creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I’ve wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.’ – James Cameron

‘I would say I’ve always lived creativity, but now I – I do it with an intention that’s got a completely different power.’ – Abigail Washburn

‘True play is creativity.’ – John Lasseter

‘I don’t think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it’s a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn’t. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn’t care for the lifestyle.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.’ – Lady Gaga

‘I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.’ – Lady Gaga

‘I don’t like the idea of spirituality done the way it’s done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.’ – M.I.A.

‘Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.’ – David Byrne

‘Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.’ – David Byrne

‘Now that we’ve discovered how to actually develop policies and projects holistically, if we can get the barriers out of the way and release the creativity that’s in our universities, our farming organizations, amongst our farmers and land managers, we’ll be astounded. As I’d like to express it, the human spirit will fly.’ – Allan Savory

‘It’s not that I don’t believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.’ – Lily Cole

‘There’s an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.’ – Lily Cole

‘I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies… Our mother knew enough to get us started and then stand back and not meddle. My parents never said to us, ‘Don’t you think you’ll need something to fall back on?’ They acted as though creativity was completely normal.’ – Julia Cameron

‘So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had ‘more,’ we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones.’ – Julia Cameron

‘I think that ‘Floor Sample’ is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of ‘Julia the teacher’ and introduce ‘Julia the artist.” – Julia Cameron

‘The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage – curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called ‘the future.” – David Suzuki

‘I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.’ – Carla Hall

‘The ‘Best of British’ is a positive thing that’s bandied around, but also it’s applied pressure to our country in terms of economic growth. I think we’ve always felt the rest of the world is so much more powerful in terms of being commercially viable, but we can take great pride in our level of creativity.’ – Erin O’Connor

‘I don’t fight creativity. I don’t fight against not being creative. If I’m not being creative, I’m not forcing it.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.’ – Kym Whitley

‘Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn’t care. I’m really more inspired by their creativity more so than just the cursing. I’m really impressed by clean music.’ – Lil Mama

‘I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.’ – Tom Odell

‘If my colleagues stop eating donuts and are more active, it saves me money on next year’s insurance premium, and I get to work with people who have more energy and creativity each day. Yet most organizations fail to make health a cultural priority. Instead, they treat healthcare like any other expense.’ – Tom Rath

‘Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.’ – Tom Rath

‘I’ve always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you’re writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.’ – Sadie Jones

‘One of the ironies of a conference dedicated to all things digital and virtual is that the best ways to connect with people are surprisingly old-school. Social media tools can improve the odds of a serendipitous encounter at SXSW, but old-fashioned hustle, palm-pressing and – above all – creativity go a long way.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘I love the creativity of New York, but I don’t enjoy the city – I don’t like living here.’ – Zubin Mehta

‘Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.’ – Jamie Cullum

‘I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I’ve worked out why this is – unsociable hours, plus general creativity.’ – Jamie Cullum

‘Italy’s assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.’ – Lapo Elkann

‘I’m a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.’ – Lapo Elkann

‘You can’t train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they’re clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it – but that’s true for any field.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I’m a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.’ – Jason Blum

‘For notes related to books I’m writing, I’ve wondered whether I should organize my notes better, but I do find that the action or scrolling through them and seeing odd juxtapositions of ideas helps to stimulate my own ideas and creativity. I worry that if I kept the notes in a highly-structured way, I might lose some of these benefits.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions – there are differences.’ – Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

‘We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world’s problems.’ – Jason Silva

‘From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.’ – Vidya Balan

‘Films are not mathematics – that’s the first thing you need to understand. At least, that’s how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.’ – Shahid Kapoor

‘Your priority has to be the creativity – and build a brand. That’s what everybody did – Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That’s the smart thing to do.’ – Nicolas Ghesquiere

‘For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.’ – Dries van Noten

‘I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.’ – Bahman Ghobadi

‘If I’m in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what’s possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that’s a valuable thing.’ – Ben Horowitz

‘I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don’t think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.’ – J. Anthony Lukas

‘I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don’t think we mine creativity from within. It’s bestowed from on high, from God.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn’t being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘I’m learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.’ – Denis Villeneuve

‘Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.’ – Neil MacGregor

‘We’ll be ‘outsourcing’ our creativity and our thought processes to manufactured components that could be inconspicuously implanted beneath our coiffeurs. Welcome to the Borg. You might not be entirely comfortable with such cybernetic enhancements, but all the smart money says it’s going to happen.’ – Seth Shostak

‘Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands.’ – Shea Hembrey

‘Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.’ – Gary Zukav

‘Sometimes, and I hate to say it, you do feel things are asked for in the most ludicrously unrealistic fashion. The time you are expected to make things in, and the money you are expected to make them for – that is the death of creativity. Just because some things can be made very cheaply does not mean everything can be.’ – Darren Boyd

‘I like being in a collaborative and respectful environment. When you’re in an environment spearheaded by ego and fear, it’s the death of creativity.’ – Darren Boyd

‘Once you start trying to sell creativity, you’re always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren’t as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don’t know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.’ – Dave Pirner

‘The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique – that is their intellect from which springs creativity.’ – Stanley B. Prusiner

‘I don’t understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It’s far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.’ – Laetitia Casta

‘You don’t base records on success; you base it on creativity.’ – Nikki Sixx

‘When ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and neglecting discipline. Nike’s ‘Just do it’ ads were teaching young people to break the rules.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘In ‘The Future and Its Enemies,’ I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing progress and happiness. For celebrating creativity and happiness, I have been called a fascist by critics on both coasts.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control – to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children’s cartoons or utopian novels. But it’s just a fantasy.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘The ’60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n’ roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.’ – Frankie Valli

‘I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.’ – Shari Arison

‘Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.’ – Foster Friess

‘You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.’ – Ira Sachs

‘Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.’ – Jeff Mangum

‘Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.’ – Basmah bint Saud

‘We know the Republicans are happy to keep the country in the dark, and if we Democrats are to recapture the power necessary to assert our values, we must find the energy, courage, creativity and unity to map out a brighter day for the people we sincerely want to serve.’ – John Yarmuth

‘The rigors of creativity – the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude – do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn’t for everyone.’ – David Rakoff

‘Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That’s one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.’ – Timothy Noah

‘The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘That’s the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I’m a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It’s your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.’ – Daniela Ruah

‘Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great – and so vital for innovation and creativity.’ – Justine Bateman

‘I can never turn my creativity off.’ – Casey Wilson

‘All the difficulties surrounding the making of ‘Mars et Avril’ actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!’ – Martin Villeneuve

‘I think for me, the thing that gets me in the right mindset is just watching something funny, something light, something that makes me feel good. Regardless of what it is – when you feel good, when you feel upbeat, creativity flows!’ – Derek Hough

‘A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.’ – Michael Leunig

‘The natural creativity of the staff morphed ‘The Daily Beast’ very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the Cheat Sheet, the video player, and in the breaking news slot in the first big box. The rest is all original, generated by Beast writers and editors.’ – Tina Brown

‘I like looking at a future where we’re expanding our creativity and brightening our lives. I believe that eventually we’ll get to a point where we’ll be able to live indefinitely through our technology.’ – Steve Aoki

‘Extending our lives, extending our creativity, opening up the mysteries of the brain. All those things that are really exciting – that’s kind of the basis of ‘Neon Future,’ and that’s why I interviewed Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey.’ – Steve Aoki

‘I find human beings to be so complex and full of beauty. Creativity is our way to express and challenge and flow. So, all you humans, create and flow! I’ll be over here thinking you are beautiful and creepy and freaky and wonderful!’ – Angela Bettis

‘People are happiest when they’re the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.’ – Eric S. Raymond

‘I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.’ – Pat Metheny

‘Don’t stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want – freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.’ – James Altucher

‘I love being a mother. I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done, and I personally feel that it’s had a very positive effect on my work. I think it’s an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity – it did for me, certainly.’ – Kate Bush

‘Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.’ – Tony Buzan

‘Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six – but not me.’ – Anthony Browne

‘Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.’ – Anthony Browne

‘Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children’s Laureate post exists.’ – Anthony Browne

‘I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew – any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.’ – Moran Atias

‘That’s the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it’s like I haven’t written it, it’s more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, ‘Song of the Red Rock Mountain,’ is one of them. I recorded it and thought, ‘Where did that come from?” – Alvin Lee

‘Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that’s when the beginning of the end started. It’s all based on money instead of art and creativity.’ – Gary Wright

‘Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.’ – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

‘Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It’s easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.’ – Amy Bloom

‘If you’re an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.’ – Amy Bloom

‘I’m an attorney when I’m not writing comics, and have been for years. That’s a side of my life I don’t always associate with pure creativity, but it’s all worked out nicely.’ – Charles Soule

‘Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity… My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?’ – Jan de Bont

‘Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.’ – Jan de Bont

‘The creative brand of Cirque du Soleil is creativity.’ – Guy Laliberte

‘Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia – or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.’ – Orlando Bloom

‘In Australia, there aren’t a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they’re very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.’ – Joel Edgerton

‘Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they’re always wrong. Bet on it.’ – Kenneth Fisher

‘What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small – in school, our parents.’ – Philippe Petit

‘I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion – not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.’ – Philippe Petit

‘I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity – you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.’ – Ze Frank

‘We retell our favorite stories. That’s what we’ve done since we were sitting around campfires. It’s a part of the human spirit. It doesn’t have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That’s how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that’s already been done.’ – Joel Kinnaman

‘I actually don’t think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.’ – Daniel Boulud

‘You always hear actors say, ‘Theater is my first love,’ and it is. It’s a time when you really get to do what you do, and there’s not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved – sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.’ – Amy Landecker

‘I allow people to create, but I’m also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I’m like a referee. Everybody else is kicking a ball. It is very messy. From the mess, though, you refine what is there.’ – Simon McBurney

‘My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.’ – Chen Guangbiao

‘A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.’ – Matt McGorry

‘Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they’re all a continuum – the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.’ – John Darnielle

‘Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.’ – John Darnielle

‘We all fantasize about work that uses our creativity, is self-directed, happens during the hours we choose, and occurs in an attractively lit setting with fascinating people – you know, jobs like women have on TV.’ – Sandra Tsing Loh

‘Other than much needed infrastructure development, local administrations in Papua must encourage entrepreneurship and creativity.’ – Ciputra

‘Creativity and business acumen don’t always go hand in hand.’ – Sophia Amoruso

‘Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.’ – Sophia Amoruso

‘We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.’ – Hubert Burda

‘Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.’ – Bryce Dallas Howard

‘There’s a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I’ve treasured the most is I’ve seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.’ – Bryce Dallas Howard

‘I loved everything that went with rock n’ roll. I loved being at the heart of such creativity and being young in such a stimulating and exciting era.’ – Pattie Boyd

‘I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it’s instant death to creativity.’ – Mads Mikkelsen

‘We’re moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement.’ – David Whyte

‘Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.’ – Joel Salatin

‘Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.’ – Erwin McManus

‘Food to me, in one word, is ‘creativity’ or ‘expression.’ It’s simply, ‘This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.” – Graham Elliot

‘I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.’ – Tamra Davis

‘I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It’s some of my favorite art… It’s more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.’ – Beck

‘Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.’ – David Ayer

‘What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens – I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature – using books themselves as a starting point.’ – Malorie Blackman

‘Just as there are moments when the words flow and it feels like the easiest job in the world, there are many more when I think I have nothing to say, and my journalism training taught me that writing is a job, that you write whether you are inspired or not, and that the only way to unlock creativity is to write through it.’ – Jane Green

‘With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn’t make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.’ – Rivers Cuomo

‘I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I’m doing is making money off other people’s creativity, and I’m not creating anything myself.’ – Nathan Fielder

‘Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world’s education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.’ – Wendy Kopp

‘I related to ‘A Clockwork Orange’ in a personal way. I was a bit of a thug growing up. It’s taken some reform for me. Thank God for artistry and creativity as an outlet.’ – CeeLo Green

‘Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it’s a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it’s supposed to be, you know, that’s supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it’s unbelievable. It’s shocking.’ – George Lois

‘Everybody is so busy talking about ‘Twittering’ and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don’t talk about creativity.’ – George Lois

‘The whole area of creativity is constipated and frightened.’ – George Lois

‘The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they’re a designer.’ – George Lois

‘It’s almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere – now it’s basically gone.’ – George Lois

‘The model a lot of companies use is a very pyramidal model which sort of designates that all creativity, all wisdom flows from the top. We think that’s the absolute wrong model.’ – Richard Hayne

‘We must permeate the stores with creativity and offer service when and to the degree the customer wants it. Of course, it means offering all the omni bells and whistles they want, like in-store pickup, same-day delivery, and mobile point of sale, and all of this must be done every hour of every day the store is open.’ – Richard Hayne

‘Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.’ – Astro Teller

‘Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.’ – Astro Teller

‘I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.’ – Chris Riddell

‘We are bodies which think, and we’re at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.’ – Nick Harkaway

‘One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.’ – Kate Forsyth

‘When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.’ – Susan Vreeland

‘Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.’ – Edmund Phelps

‘I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.’ – Edmund Phelps

‘Traditional models of work only let us cross out the needs on the very bottom of the pyramid – basic sustenance. On the flipside, independent employment within the network of the new sharing economy addresses our needs for a sense of community and belonging, autonomy and respect, creativity and problem solving.’ – Leah Busque

‘I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.’ – Steven Millhauser

‘If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.’ – Catherine Asaro

‘I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.’ – M. J. Rose

‘I’m probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I’m just doing what’s necessary to make that creativity visible.’ – Gary Hume

‘The biggest thing I’m seeing – and I have to be careful what I say here – is that people are tired of the old guard and the familiar brands. They’re looking for more individuality and creativity, and that’s coming out of this whole new wave of younger brands: Thom Browne, Michael Bastian, Robert Geller, myself.’ – Simon Spurr

‘As far as I’m concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.’ – Edward Hirsch

‘People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn’t serve true creativity.’ – Michael Masser

‘I’m fascinated by the concept of what I call ‘clusters of creativity’: the Brontes, the Waughs, families with several geniuses. I’m one of four; competition among siblings has to be a factor.’ – Nigel Hamilton

‘TV’s not the problem, and I’m tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV’s getting in your way of writing a book, then you don’t want to write a book bad enough.’ – Andrea Seigel

‘There’s no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.’ – Karl Schroeder

‘What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players – the way they have to make a play out of nothing.’ – George Vecsey

‘With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn’t been available in the past.’ – Ren Ng

‘I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I’ve ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.’ – Philip Schultz

‘Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can’t do the formulas – you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.’ – Philip Schultz

‘In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.’ – Shah Rukh Khan

‘I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn’t really doing the social media thing yet; I didn’t have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn’t the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.’ – Jacob Whitesides

‘In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.’ – Damian Woetzel

‘All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity – CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.’ – Rachel Bloom

‘Entrepreneurs bring to business… creativity.’ – Wayne Rogers

‘We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don’t know what we would spend money on. We don’t hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We’re like survivalist local commercial directors.’ – Charles Lincoln Neal

‘Maybe some people may have thought or imagined that Islam drains all creativity. In fact, when you look at history, you discover that the golden age of Spain is what actually produced what we call the guitar.’ – Cat Stevens

‘In my own life, I’ve written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.’ – Heather Graham

‘Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I’m pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand – it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.’ – Victoria Aveyard

‘New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.’ – Ratan Tata

‘I love creating new things. It’s difficult to be creative once a restaurant’s open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu.’ – Jean-Georges Vongerichten

‘The Producers Guild represents the creativity, innovation and dynamism that sets our industry apart from all others.’ – Jon Feltheimer

‘My kitchen is my baby. I don’t have kids, so cooking is sort of like my child. Renovating my kitchen has allowed me to channel my creativity the way parents work on a nursery. The centerpiece is my vintage 1950s Wedgewood stove.’ – Sara Ramirez

‘At Brit + Co, our mission is to unlock creativity, so we look for future employees that actively flex their creative muscles. The design of your resume is the first way to let me know more about your aesthetic.’ – Brit Morin

‘It’s weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.’ – Macklemore

‘I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.’ – Bernard Sumner

‘Creativity is a mansion. If you’re empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that’s full.’ – F. Gary Gray

‘My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.’ – Taylor Negron

‘Since I came from another part of the world, I expected many differences in the way things worked, but at the end of the day, there actually were more similarities between the American and Indian entertainment industry: the same chaos, creativity, passion, and genius all around.’ – Priyanka Chopra

‘Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.’ – Leslie Odom, Jr.

‘In my mind, creativity is consciousness.’ – RJ Cyler

‘Without creativity, I’d be just ‘blah blah blah.” – RJ Cyler

‘I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.’ – Stephen Curry

‘One thing about creativity is, when you feel confident and respected, you’re more likely to pitch more interesting stuff because you’re not as precious with it. You feel like, ‘This is going to land, and I’m going to be supported in this.” – Aisha Tyler

‘It’s our privilege to work with College Track students as they chart their course toward a college degree – they bring persistence, creativity, and extraordinary discipline throughout their academic journey.’ – Laurene Powell Jobs

‘The innovation and creativity that’s so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.’ – Laurene Powell Jobs

‘I think after ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still,’ I really stopped thinking strategically about my career. I just did. At that point, it became crystal clear to me that you can strategise your career all you want, but it’s so difficult to get a movie made, and creativity shouldn’t be subjected to that kind of strategic thinking.’ – Scott Derrickson

‘In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.’ – Agnes Gund

‘I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use – I am inspired by the buildings in my city, by park greenery and dazzling store windows, by the jaunty strollers and umbrellas and billboards I walk past. Just strolling our streets, we encounter creativity every single day.’ – Agnes Gund

‘My education in the arts began at the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a Cleveland child, I visited the museum’s halls and corridors, gallery spaces and shows, over and over. For me, the Cleveland Museum was a school of my very own – the place where my eyes opened, my tastes developed, my ideas about beauty and creativity grew.’ – Agnes Gund

‘Generally, I’m not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.’ – Pardis Sabeti

‘Obviously, Kanye and I are very different in the way we express ourselves publicly. He’s so passionate… about art, about culture, about creativity. And he’s really good at it. And that honesty manifests itself in ways that are not politically correct, not socially acceptable sometimes.’ – John Legend

‘My creativity is an entity unto its own.’ – Carole King

‘When we were children, every day after school, my brother and sister and I would go to my mother’s office. It was full of pencils and marker and fabrics and beads. It was so much fun to be a child and to express my creativity through drawing and to playing dress-up in all of the wonderful and colorful clothes.’ – Margherita Missoni

‘I suspect that most retailers are so busy buying goods, taking care of markdowns, and so on that they have too little time to give thought to creativity.’ – Stanley Marcus

‘Since merchandise creativity is hampered by the reluctance of manufacturers to do special things for an individual store, it might be well to increase purchases in foreign markets more able to accept innovative ideas.’ – Stanley Marcus

‘There’s no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.’ – Richard Madden

‘There’s a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don’t necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.’ – Flume

‘My creativity thrives with limitations.’ – Ransom Riggs

‘The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of the collective creativity and history of the Jewish people.’ – Reuven Rivlin

‘Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.’ – Imran Amed

‘I don’t know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.’ – Antoine Fuqua

‘I am an artist no matter what I do. I live for creativity. I think everyone should. It is the antithesis of being destructive.’ – Billy Dee Williams

‘I sort of feel like my job is to be a conduit to opportunities, to maximize the creativity of the day itself – because that’s when the cameras are running. That’s the important thing to me. Some of these shots you need to think about in advance; you need to have some ideas for them.’ – David MacKenzie

‘Somehow, the process of making movies conventionally can dampen creativity because you’ve got to wait in line to do everything the way it’s supposed to be, particularly with actors who are just hanging out waiting for the call.’ – David MacKenzie

‘I believe that all forms of creativity are related.’ – Issey Miyake

‘With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.’ – Issey Miyake

‘Simply, the majority of the most interesting filmmakers are the ones confronted with difficult situations. Their creativity blows a hole in the wall and lets in the light.’ – Isabelle Adjani

‘You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.’ – Damon Knight

‘I feel really fortunate to come from a home that was always supportive and stemming from creativity, integrity and building character.’ – Nick Jonas

‘I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, ‘That doesn’t sound so creative,’ but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don’t design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it – that is where my creativity comes in.’ – Kate Spade

‘Republicans are right to express concern about excessive regulation, and they can do a lot to reduce it, above all by scrutinizing rules on the books and by putting all new proposals through a cost-benefit filter. There’s room for plenty of creativity here.’ – Cass Sunstein

‘I’m very organic in nature with my creativity. It just kind of wraps around me, or it’s a moment I have, a click of inspiration. It’s never calculated.’ – Jeremy Scott

‘I’m not there to tailor the role to me: I’m there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I’m guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.’ – William Hurt

‘The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American’s needs for a skilled work force.’ – Elaine Chao

‘It’s rare to find a corporate partner who encourages true creativity, but our meetings with Lionsgate’s creative team convinced us that this is the right move for RocketJump and our millions of fans.’ – Freddie Wong

‘A film maker’s energy and creativity don’t have to end when he turns over his film.’ – Michael Cimino

‘The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.’ – Christina Milian

‘It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.’ – Tom Brady

‘Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.’ – Raghuram Rajan

‘I was brought up with an incredible amount of freedom and creativity.’ – Pete Burns

‘The Dover Street Markets bring brands of all disciplines together to sell their products in an open atmosphere that, most importantly, incites creativity. They are, along with the ‘Comme des Garcons’ stores, usually located in areas off the beaten track.’ – Rei Kawakubo

‘I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity.’ – Peter Heller

‘I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.’ – RuPaul

‘I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it’s afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.’ – RuPaul

‘I realize Twitter can be good, providing a video game of creativity for your brain.’ – Greg Gutfeld

‘I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.’ – K. Flay

‘I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity – why I create and not for whom.’ – Raoul Peck

‘The best thing about being from Britain is that it’s a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn’t imagine coming from anywhere else.’ – Gabriella Wilde

‘My dad discouraged me and my older sister watching too much TV. I don’t want to portray them as crazy hippies, but I definitely feel like I was influenced by their creativity. But did I want to have an acting career myself? I didn’t think so. I think my goal really was to direct. I really wanted to make stories in that capacity.’ – Georgia King

‘On a job, there’s so much commitment you have to give, in regards to time, research… I like the tunnel vision of it that prevents anything else from getting in. The creativity and collaboration required there is very rewarding.’ – Liam Cunningham

‘I’ve certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.’ – Bob Iger

‘People who aren’t artists don’t think about creativity and art; they think about money.’ – James Arthur

‘I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.’ – Sam Hunt

‘Sometimes I’m not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.’ – Sam Hunt

‘A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I’ve worked in. Having said that, it’s fiction and has a lot to do with my imagination and creativity.’ – Ravi Subramanian

‘As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one’s creativity.’ – Ravi Subramanian

‘I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.’ – Amy Purdy

‘The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.’ – Sam Jaeger

‘For me, it’s always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.’ – Future

‘I want to be the most melodic artist. ‘His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.’ I want people to say that about me.’ – Future

‘In terms of creativity, both are equally satisfying. Music album is for yourself, where you compose songs and stuff like that, and in films, you have a story, characters, and songs penned by someone else.’ – Mohit Chauhan

‘The wonderful thing with some of the things I’ve done – most of them, really – is to be trusted. To be able to do your thing, to work on it, hone it into my gem of creativity!’ – Adam West

‘I get bursts of creativity with bursts of physical activity.’ – Payal Kadakia

‘In running my own company, I was too busy for a while, and I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll stop dancing for a bit.’ It was the worst decision ever. I just lost my creativity and my drive.’ – Payal Kadakia

‘Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!’ – Rachele Brooke Smith

‘We built our business on creativity, and we’re going to have to go through an education process for the next five years to explain to people how our users and that creativity creates value.’ – Evan Spiegel

‘For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it’s never really been like that. It’s the opposite. I’ve always had this instinct to escape.’ – Washed Out

‘I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.’ – Sydney Pollack

‘When it comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best.’ – Christine Tsai

‘Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we – kids and grown-ups – all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.’ – Gaby Hoffmann

‘Chess masters don’t evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That’s the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.’ – John Dickerson

‘If we could communicate at the speed of thought, we can augment our creativity with the low-level stuff that AI and robots and 3-D printers and fab labs and all that do.’ – Mary Lou Jepsen

‘When you care about people’s happiness and productivity, you give them what brings out the best in them and their creativity. And if you give them a choice, they’ll say, ‘I want an iPhone,’ or ‘I want a Mac.’ We think we can win a lot of corporate decisions at that level.’ – Tim Cook

‘My favorite thing about working with Lady Gaga is really just the sheer level of creativity she brings to the table. And she’s really one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever known. Her intelligence is equaled by her heart.’ – Matt Bomer

‘I had a normal childhood where I was able to cultivate my own creativity, and I don’t think I would have been ready for this crazy business at 8 years old.’ – Matt Bomer

‘At least for me, any time I’ve been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn’t coming from me.’ – Jack Antonoff

‘The worst thing you can have as an actor is too big an ego. It just kills creativity.’ – Ari Graynor

‘One thing I love about the beauty industry is that there are so many entrepreneurs, so much creativity, such a fun pipeline of products.’ – Mary Dillon

‘Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development, and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel.’ – Margo Georgiadis

‘We need innovation and creativity.’ – Jared Polis

‘I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.’ – Alycia Debnam-Carey

‘Cultivating innovative thinking starts at the top. Leaders can foster a culture of innovation by encouraging creativity and experimenting with new ideas.’ – Lynne Doughtie

‘Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity – the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary – so it’s completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It’s full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.’ – Bonnie Hammer

‘Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It’s the holy grail of business, but achieving it – even merely explaining it – is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.’ – Adam Lashinsky

‘Ambition is a form of creativity.’ – Thomas Heatherwick

‘I love modeling, and I missed fashion and my friends and family in fashion and the creativity that I’m able to express through it. I didn’t feel I was getting enough of that through my acting.’ – Amber Valletta

‘Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.’ – Marco Bizzarri

‘You get more diversity and creativity in your problem solving, and you end up having a much better and more representative approach to solving the challenges faced by the population you serve.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘Where he tells you exactly how he views the world – just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.’ – Chance The Rapper

‘My creativity for making women feel beautiful is one of the reasons I love being Latina. Just making people feel more attractive was always a goal of mine; the creativity – I think it has a lot to do with my culture as well.’ – Carolyn Aronson

‘Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it kill the artist inside of me.’ – Mark Foster

‘My plan is to give myself the space and a platform to freely express my creativity.’ – Selah Louise Marley

‘I’m not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.’ – Labrinth

‘Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely a fantasy world. Having a close family has been a stabilizing rock for me.’ – Neil Sedaka

‘Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.’ – Katrina Lake

‘We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don’t. There’s more love on this planet than hate; there’s more creativity than destructive power.’ – Dan Brown

‘If you’ve got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to.’ – Keith Barry

‘It’s important to show that creativity is in many different sectors, not just in graphic design or filmmaking.’ – Ginevra Elkann

‘The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It’s just about the way that you look at things.’ – Ginevra Elkann

‘I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity.’ – Morgan Neville

‘Creativity is not about the fame.’ – Alessandro Michele

‘The idea that I’m 45 doesn’t mean that I have no creativity. I’m like a student: it’s the same – it’s not a war!’ – Alessandro Michele

‘I’ve seen the government up close and personal, and for the most part, it’s inefficient and hidebound, and it stifles creativity in any industry it clutches within its well-meaning but slimy tentacles.’ – Homer Hickam

‘To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band.’ – Zacky Vengeance

‘Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you’re doing. It’s rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.’ – Andy Grammer

‘Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.’ – Varun Dhawan

‘I believe that creativity is an important human experience and element in the same way as sleeping, eating, having sex.’ – Zac Posen

‘I went through the workroom at Central Saint Martins in London, which is the most competitive workroom of a design school in the world. Very high creativity, very conceptual, very international, age-diverse and cutthroat – people who have master degrees reapplying into a foundation there is just wild to me to launch their careers.’ – Zac Posen

‘One of the things I’ve always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there’s a certain level of playfulness to them, and pure imagination and creativity.’ – Noah Hawley

‘When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.’ – Harper Reed

‘I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.’ – Harper Reed

‘It is a sign of my mother’s determination, confidence, and creativity that more than 50 years after launching the renowned Ebony Fashion Fair show, her timeless sense of style endures as a guidepost for today’s fashion-loving women.’ – Linda Johnson Rice

‘I try to write short novels and leave details out not because I want to be minimalist, but because I think that it enables the readers’ creativity and interaction with the book.’ – Mohsin Hamid

‘I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there’s a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.’ – Dawn Richard

‘I don’t think there’s anything to be ashamed of about being a woman who loves fashion. Fashion is a vehicle for self-expression, it tells the world who you are and how you want to be seen. If you use it as a canvas for creativity, then you might want to talk about it, you know? And I fully embrace that.’ – Elaine Welteroth

‘I think braids over all allow you to play with your identity a little bit and just have some fun and show off your creativity.’ – Elaine Welteroth

‘Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.’ – Carrie-Anne Moss

‘There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt – whether it’s in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it.’ – Bennett Miller

‘I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.’ – Nick Hornby

‘For me, some of the most intense creativity comes when something has to change for technical or design reasons, and you’re trying to find a way to make it fit the fiction.’ – Richard K. Morgan

‘Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It’s the only place they feel comfortable. It’s the only time they feel like they’re being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.’ – Paul Dini

‘We are building a brain trust of leading app talent. These are very highly regarded developers, and SGN is blessed to have them join to help build a great company that brings innovation, creativity, and joy to our users.’ – Shervin Pishevar

‘At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people’s feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity.’ – Lionel Shriver

‘A culture that only recognizes and rewards the same set of attributes results in less collaboration, creativity, and innovation. If we only reward the loudest voices or the sharpest elbows, then we’re missing out on the full range of talent.’ – Peggy Johnson

‘We need to harness the boundless energy and creativity of our youth.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘Innovating today is about creativity; it is about the freedom to act… if you look at the big conglomerate… it’s highly regulated. It’s a lot of talk about… internal controls and this and that… so there’s a huge mindshift change to get the best of people.’ – Joe Kaeser

‘When something effective takes hold, it can change the world. Whether through a mobile device or a desktop computer, connectivity and creativity make it all possible.’ – Tae Yoo

‘My parents encouraged me to be creative by being creative and interesting people themselves, and by making it clear how highly they valued creativity in others.’ – Karl Iagnemma

‘We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills.’ – John Rocha

‘I don’t think you need a certificate to truly legitimize you or authenticate you as a designer. I think real innovation and creativity can come from everywhere.’ – Mark Parker

‘I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.’ – Mitski

‘There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity – that it’s about having a great idea. But it’s not, really. Entrepreneurship isn’t about creativity. It’s about organization-building – which, in turn, is about people.’ – Andrew Yang

‘Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools… allowing for this freedom helps creativity and productivity.’ – Alex Stamos

‘Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don’t mix. Ultimately, it doesn’t do you any good.’ – Brian Stokes Mitchell

‘People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They’re compelled to get that creativity out and to share that with others.’ – Brian Stokes Mitchell

‘If technology is designed mostly by white males, who make up roughly half our population, we’re missing out on the innovation, solutions, and creativity that a broader pool of talent can bring to the table.’ – Kimberly Bryant

‘I love cooking shows! I’m not a bad cook myself, but I must say that I admire the creativity of those young chefs. It makes me jealous… and hungry.’ – Leila Slimani

‘I’ve tried very hard to stay grounded with my family, my ol’ buddies, nature, music, and creativity.’ – Coy Bowles

‘Wealth is only ever actually created from the bottom-up, with free people employing their distinctly human creativity and finding ways to serve and employ others.’ – Joe Lonsdale

”British Vogue’ is a great magazine with a legacy of creativity and innovation.’ – Edward Enninful

‘I didn’t grow up with money; I didn’t come from a rich family. But what fashion gave me was an escape into a world of creativity: if I couldn’t afford that Junior Gaultier jacket, then I’d get one from the market and customise it.’ – Edward Enninful

‘I think we shouldn’t buckle up our creativity. You’ve got to experiment!’ – Ranveer Brar

‘I still don’t know how to jump-start a car, even though it’s been told to me a million times. But I do love thinking about how creativity works.’ – Dan Trachtenberg

‘There is a seductive simplicity in Donald Trump’s vision to build walls and ban refugees to protect American interests. But we must always remember that we create far greater opportunity for all Americans when we enable the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of people globally to take root here.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.’ – Peter Marino

‘I have always loved fashion and feel it’s another way to express my creativity. It’s art and beauty combined.’ – Jessie James Decker

‘For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.’ – Eileen Pollack

‘I had this creativity always with this will for perfection, and I always said to myself, ‘Look for what’s best.’ ‘That’s your goal, your driving principle.” – Hubert de Givenchy

‘When you see the best of the best – when you see a Matisse or a Picasso – what interests you is the creativity and harmony.’ – Hubert de Givenchy

‘What snowboarding has always had and the Olympics has not touched is that spirit, that original spirit of creativity and athletes standing up and having a voice and being innovative. But I guess what the Olympics has done is provided a platform for that spirit, and that’s what I see as being a really positive thing.’ – Gretchen Bleiler

‘I don’t know if I’ve got the capacity for all of the creativity that I want to put out there, which is annoying and frustrating – it’s kinda like torture.’ – Paolo Nutini

‘Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that’s unbelievable!’ – Paolo Nutini

‘I worked on ‘Cadillactica’ with the mind to not sample as much and focus on creativity.’ – Big K.R.I.T.

‘I think Steve Wynn, who was like my mentor and a second father, has been a great inspiration. He’s a great mentor because he’s a guy who’s had great business success but also has always been driven by creativity – and inspired creativity.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘We’ve always operated under the belief that you could run a video game business as professionally as you could run a consumer packaged goods business, and you wouldn’t diminish creativity.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘If you track your organization’s creativity by the number of brainstorms on your calendar, you’re missing out. It’s more important to capture those unplanned sparks of inspiration that so often come when we’re cooking dinner, taking a shower, or commuting to work.’ – Charles Best

‘DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers’ lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life.’ – Charles Best

‘Art and creativity are crucial, whether you’re a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.’ – Cornelia Parker

‘I don’t like to get too caught up in habits because too much structure can stifle creativity. But there are a few habits that make us more productive and are healthy to work into every workweek, if not every day. I love to start the day with a workout – even just a run on the treadmill while catching up on the morning headlines.’ – Dinesh Paliwal

‘All leading brands started with and still possess the DNA of innovation and creativity, but it is often limited to one or two areas such as design or engineering. For a company to prosper, it must inject this innovative spirit into every aspect of the business.’ – Dinesh Paliwal

‘When you have a situation where you’re hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there’s insane amounts of creativity in the room.’ – Brian Stelfreeze

‘I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.’ – Caroline Ghosn

‘For the black author, and even the ex-slave narrator, creativity has often lain with the lie – forging an identity, ‘making’ one, but ‘lying’ about one, too.’ – Kevin Young

‘As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product – your job is to make a director’s vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.’ – Maya Hawke

‘We need visions of a future in which we have applied our infinite creativity to the task of living on a finite world, where we have embraced our role, become comfortable and proficient as planet-shapers, and learned to use our technological skills to enhance the survival prospects not just of humanity but of all life on Earth.’ – David Grinspoon

‘It was not until Web comics that I saw stories about women and stories by women and things that were aimed specifically at female readership. It was just kind of this free-for-all that was achieving something amazing with creativity. That was where I got my start.’ – Noelle Stevenson

‘And I think that, given the opportunity, somebody could really learn a lot just being around me and the girls because it’s really nonstop, 24/7 brainstorming and creativity and just trying to get organized and really pack a lot into a day – being there nonstop with all engines blazing.’ – Kris Jenner

‘If you can allow yourself to do more good with your creativity by being successful, then that’s a great thing.’ – David Droga

‘Being dyslexic, creativity was my way of expressing myself.’ – Ashley Nell Tipton

‘During college, in Los Angeles, I interned all over Hollywood. Development roles appealed to me; they were a perfect blend of business and creativity.’ – Julia Hartz

‘Right now, my focus is really acting and directing. But I see the creativity and the work that goes into building a network, and it’s fascinating to me. If those doors open for me… I think just learning as much as I can at this point is really what it’s about.’ – Shiri Appleby

‘I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn’t just about money.’ – Andreja Pejic

‘Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline – it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.’ – Lela Loren

‘The one thing I had pure in my life was creativity.’ – Fantastic Negrito

‘My most revered hero is Robert Johnson. His lyrics are so consistent with rap: the danger, the boldness, the creativity.’ – Fantastic Negrito

‘I’ve dated a few musicians in my life, and it’s kind of always been that way for me. You unite through creativity and share that process and more together.’ – Dianne Reeves

‘When I wrote ‘Home Safe,’ I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens when a vital safety net is suddenly removed. The difficulty some people have in growing up. The way a deep love can be as crippling as it is satisfying. But mostly, I wanted to look at the mother-daughter relationship.’ – Elizabeth Berg

‘In my heart of hearts, I love theatre. It’s the joy and terror of putting a play on, the creativity of it. It is infinitely harder than film and television and more tiring. Your performance is heightened in the way it isn’t with film.’ – Janet McTeer

‘It’s just not funny to disrespect other people’s beliefs, backgrounds, cultures, or identities when those are deeply rooted in longstanding oppression. Jokes that punch down on marginalized people require no creativity because they’ve existed since the beginning of time. It’s like telling a knock-knock joke and believing you’re Richard Pryor.’ – Franchesca Ramsey

‘We weren’t rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don’t have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over.’ – Tony Rock

‘The best thing about my job is meeting people who are able to express their creativity in a way that suits them and gives them purpose.’ – Madeline Brewer

‘Criticism, maybe cynicism, is just rampant in music, in creativity. Everybody has a perception and a set of opinions based on what that piece of music is doing to them internally.’ – Rob Halford

‘Athens is an amazing city for creativity. I bought a house there. A little, tiny place.’ – Cindy Wilson

‘Athens is one of those cities that is very livable. And it’s inexpensive. You can get by. And that makes for creativity. So people tend to stay there. I still have some friends there that never left.’ – Cindy Wilson

‘There are two elements to nailing a job interview: form and substance. ‘Form’ describes the outer layer of your character – your manners, your demeanor, your social skills. ‘Substance’ describes the inner core of your character – your intellect, your empathy, your creativity.’ – Neil Blumenthal

‘The basic idea of a hackathon is to erase all routine obligations for the day so that employees can clear a mental space for creativity.’ – Neil Blumenthal

‘Creativity is a business imperative.’ – Neil Blumenthal

‘Creativity is always intense.’ – Neil Blumenthal

‘Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.’ – Debra Fischer

‘I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we’d have a lot more innovation and creativity.’ – Jennifer Hyman

‘A lot of libertarians and ultra-capitalists like to put out this idea that competition makes for better creativity. But it’s just because we don’t see all the creativity that’s been crushed.’ – Boots Riley