Quotation Explorer - 'Creative'

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist - Albert Einstein
We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves. - Norman Fischer
FOR BEING A SUCESSFUL PERSON, ONE NEEDS TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF DIVERSIFIED FEILDS. IT WILL IMPROVE YOUR THOUGHTS AND GIVES YOU CREATIVE IDEAS. YOUR VISION WILL BE BROADER AND AIM WILL BE HIGH. WHAT IT NEEDS TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU! - PRIYANSHU JOSHI
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. - Saul Steinberg
You can't be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life's masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon. - Shannon L. Alder
Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey] - J.K. Rowling
My creative nature keeps me sane in a demented world. - Andrea L'Artiste
You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming. - Deborah Day
You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box. - Ryan Lilly
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. - Robertson Davies
There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics. - Dame Edna Everage
To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my creative contemplation of an opened mind...it is a storytelling venture on a blank page of paper and white canvases...it is reclaiming my life. - Isabella Koldras, Reclaiming my Life.
, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: "You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don't find time to practice, one of the three is missing. - Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative. - Ryan Lilly
Creative leadership can be described as adaptability meets agility, and innovation meets principles. - Pearl Zhu
A protest against reality, either conscious or unconscious, active or passive, optimistic or pessimistic, always forms part of a really creative piece of work. - Trotsky
If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all. - Deepak Chopra
In order to create a positive life, you have to have a positive vision and take creative actions. - Debasish Mridha
‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. - Stephen King
Create a guidebook of creative dreamsYou can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between the images. Make a list of creative dreams you've thought of or admire in others. - S.A.R.K.
It’s amazing what you can do when you get creative. - A.D. Posey
Keep rechewing. Like a cow. Use all your creative stomachs. - Elizabeth M. Lawrence
Let us not fear our wild thoughts for they can give rise to wondrous contemplation, creative endeavour, life changing ideas, momentous bliss. - Jay Woodman
My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life. - Miles Davis
Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them. - Amit Kalantri
When I’ve lost my way or when I am confused about a path to take, I remember that most answers I need I already possess deep inside. I am naturally creative, resourceful and whole. If I consult my invisible compass, I’ll know what to do. - Steve Goodier
Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities. - Len Deighton
Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself. - W. Ian Thomas
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. - Alan Alda
Motivate yourself your own way, be creative about how to succeed in your Life. It's Your Life, After all. - Anajo Black
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. - Alice Walker
My ego drives me nuts. It asks me to be competitive, creative, and smart. - Debasish Mridha
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process. - Unknown
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. - Edward Albee
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. - Marcel Duchamp
The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome. - Tibor Kalman
Creative power is mightier than its possessor. - C.G. Jung
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. - Bertrand Russell
The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion - Mikhail Bakunin
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein
Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative. - Anonymous
There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.[Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] - Cormac McCarthy
I "love" reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry. - Moffat Machingura
An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil. - Michael Bassey Johnson
You are a creative expression of the universe. You are worthy. - Russell Eric Dobda
Thought is the most powerful creative energy in this universe. - Debasish Mridha
Be always adventurous in the creating and sharing of your art in any form. Take risks and do not settle for playing safe. If you hesitate you are restraining your creativity. Some will appreciate your creative work and others will not. Just be free in expressing the creative you! - Alison Blackmore
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play - John Cleese
To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your shoulder, and it will call to you, and you will answer. And come back even stronger. - Kathleen M. Rodgers
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry. - Henry Miller
The imagination of creative thought can be a crazy place,this giving reason to write it down to try and make sense of it all. - Helen Ingram
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. - David M. Ogilvy
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents. - Eric Hoffer
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. - Miles Davis
Language is made out of concrete things. General expressions in non- concrete terms are a laziness, they are talk, not art, not creation. They are the reaction of things on the writer, not a creative act by the writer. - Ezra Pound
The creative mind plays with the object it loves. - C.G. Jung
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. - François Mauriac
For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze. - Ryan Lilly
At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them. - Daniel Akst
Poverty comes from the poverty of positive thoughts and creative ideas. - Debasish Mridha
We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that. - Simon Pegg
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it. - Margaret Mahy
Love is the beauty; love is the truth. Love is the creative and sustaining energy of life - Debasish Mridha
Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings . . . select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude. - Richard G. Scott
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. - George Lois
Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. - Saint Frances de Sales
When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking time for myself. - Holly Mosier
Feed your creative mind.Feed your joyful, selfless heart.Feed your soul to grow.Feed with books, music, painting or arts,Feed with your special favorite passion you joyfully share near or far apart. - Angelica Hopes
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. - Carl Sandburg
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory. - Karl Lagerfeld
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step. - Karl Lagerfeld
Food is a creative, personal journey - Michael Treanor
There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge. - Bakunin
I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. - Louise Nevelson
We learn to create; we create to improve life and to teach. Creative ideas and creating are the essence of life. - Debasish Mridha
When the veil of the knower falls away the creative force of discovery guides your way - each moment is revealed as new. - Jon Bernie
To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever. - Abhijit Naskar
You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one. - Wallace D. Wattles
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? - Noam Chomsky
The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work of your hands. - Euginia Herlihy
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse. - Robert Fripp
Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding. - David W. Earle
Listening to music makes me creative in all spheres of life. - Nelson Nshekanabo
Wishful thinking and voluntary daydreaming can occasionally make dreams come true. Unrealistic projects, improbable ventures and unfeasible missions can sometimes be achieved through 'conscious dreaming'. At times, dreams can be an inspiration and generate creative reflections.(<"Lost dreams") - Erik Pevernagie
Because when I dream, I feel no fear, And when I am fearless, I am my most creative self. - Nikki Rowe
Learned and sociological accepted lines, boundaries, internal perimeters, and partitions diminish the creative space within our minds that's poised and ready. - Ben Abix
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. - Denis Diderot
It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order - Virginia Woolf
This is what works for me: I practise crop rotation with my creative endeavours. I’ve found that when the nitrogen runs out in the soil in one field, it’s best to leave it fallow for a while and cultivate another. - Andrew Macrae
When you initiate something creative and develop your policies that are solution based, you would then be able to flourish audiences who can heavily rely on your ideas for future success. - Saaif Alam
Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all. - Patti Smith
Like nature, women are the creative power behind all of creation. - Debasish Mridha
Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature. - John F. Kennedy
Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you! - Ramana Pemmaraju
God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways. - Shannon L. Alder
The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset - Michael Harris
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place - Carl Jung
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
Art is not an afterthought or a luxury. It is the creative expression of the human experience. - RC deWinter
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Creative minds doesn't get tired. - Amit Kalantri
I think ‘slow writing’ is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the ‘slow food’ movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process. - Rosaleen Love
A creative thought at first sight seems ridiculous and unimportant, an increase in those who cherish it reassures that hiding your creativity hides you for the rest of your life. - Michael Bassey Johnson
DANCE Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression. - Shah Asad Rizvi
Our readers are curious, creative, and compassionate fairy punks who are citizens of the world. - Quail Bell Magazine
The thinking ability or creative intelligence for a man is same as sexuality for a woman, and believe me, the latter is far more dangerous than all the nukes in this world." - - Ramana Pemmaraju
If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology. - Douglas Rushkoff
The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality. - Esther Perel
They say that creative ingenuity is a crazed person. I say that a crazed person is one who lacks creative ingenuity. - Andrea L'Artiste
I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable. - Marina Leigh Hatfield
Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way! - Michael Bassey Johnson
I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. - Toni Morrison
All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works. - Marty Rubin
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. - Clare Booth Luce
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. - Mary Daly
It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice. - Liam O'Flaherty
All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena. - Nikola Tesla
Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore and then you get something out of her. - Karl Lagerfeld
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. - Will Self
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. - Stephen King
A creative design to everything demands a Time Keeper to exist. It was born out from the womb of primordial time! - Vishwanath S J
Can women imagine anything finer than to experience centuries and millennia with the beloved husband in a cozy home in reverent attention to the inner workings of creative motherhood?
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - Charles Du Bos
We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself. - Jacob Nordby
Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. After that you should utilize all necessary material means to achieve your goal. - Paramahansa Yogananda
Love is the creative force of this universe. - Debasish Mridha
We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it. - Stephen Kuusisto
Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet. - Jaeda DeWalt
I am pushing you, even if it’s off a cliff, to create. Write that book, that song; pore over the concept of redecorating your life. I meet people all the time who say they’re not creative. Bullshit, motherfuckers, you are creative. - Nikki Sixx
if we have a creative mind filled with a little bit thinking power,we can do everything what we want. - CallmeiEx
Art is the most creative result of the human mind. - Eraldo Banovac
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce
There is new research showing that our creative potential increases with age. Our creativity is a product of our inner and outer experience, and as we get older, we have all kinds of experience to draw on. Also, research tells us that creativity brings energy, vitality and good health. - Sandra A. Cusack
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. - Julia Cameron
Sexual role-play is the enactment of a highly imaginative and erotic psychodrama where the individual is given creative license to express the polar opposite qualities of their multifaceted personality; bringing a profound sense of psychological release and rejuvenation to those involved. - Miya Yamanouchi
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights. - Deborah Day
To be CREATIVE, you have to be CRAZY, not because you're CRAZY or want others to become CRAZY, but because you must be CRAZY, before others become CRAZY for you. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Neither compares nor competes. Be creative. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy. - Stewart Stafford
Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling. - Hugh Macleod
To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind. - E'yen A. Gardner
Success is a creative journey with meaning and purpose. - Debasish Mridha
Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014 - Jenna Cornell
David Bowie was my creative northstar, a muse, an inspiration to me from the age of 8. He was a special soul on a mission, and the mission is now complete. I know he is truly home now among the stars. - Eileen Anglin
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. - Gloria Swanson
It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms-the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. - William Plomer
Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way. - Ryan Lilly
For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking. - Michael R. LeGault
My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy, different guy. - Amit Kalantri
What if the link or key to healing was through finding your unique personal creative outlet? - Michelle Dennis Evans
Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him. - Lev S. Vygotsky
A pretty face and a beautiful body can capture my attention, But only a beautiful and creative mind can hold it - Sam Eriakha
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing - Glenn Gould
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. - Osho
Be Creative, consume time, don't let the time consumes you.. - AribaZafar
Want to change the world? Get creative and solve problems. The world has too many factory workers and too few problem solvers. - Kevin J. Donaldson
Creative solutions come at drastic times, if you open your mind to the possibilities. Free yourself to take a chance! - Julieanne O'Conner
If a creative person steals your idea, he’s killing his creative ability, if he steals your art, he’s killing his art, if he makes it available to the world, it won,t create de impact you could have created, because it wasn’t from the right source. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. - Hugh Macleod
Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion. - Mollie Marti
What if the very reason you were created was to be creative? - Michelle Dennis Evans
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. - Max Beckmann
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. - Dennis Waitley
A mind who is materialistic by nature can’t ever find own heart in the work, so s/he may appear effective only for the time being but could never truly be a productive person or a creative soul. - Anuj Somany
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. - Kurt Vonnegut
To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own worth. - Donna Goddard
Your thought should be creative and not destructive; it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Simply put: Epistemic games recreate in game form the things that people do in the real world to learn to think in innovative and creative ways about problems that matter. - David Williamson Shaffer
Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions. - Auliq Ice
We humans are part of nature and whatever creative talents we might have come from nature and are part of nature's gift to us. - Marty Rubin
Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. - Anthony Powell
Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while. - Michael Bassey Johnson
We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself. - Joseph Chilton Pearce
The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable. - Joseph Fletcher
An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew - Michael Bassey Johnson
In the whole world, Everyone is a creative with their own way and idea. - Anil prajapati
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. - John Updike
A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory. - Shawn Lukas
The most powerful creative state to bring your desires into reality is by bring the conscious and subconscious into unison then keeping your heart and mind in perfect sync. - Steven Redhead
File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting. - Antony Johnston
Stamina is utterly important. And stamina is only possible if it's managed well. People think all they need to do is endure one crazy, intense, job-free creative burst and their dreams will come true. They are wrong, they are stupidly wrong. - Hugh Macleod
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein
Money is only used for two things. One, it's to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence. - Bob Proctor
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. - Anthony Jay
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. - Dorothy Thompson
I am not smart,clever,quick,nor creative all the time,i'm barley even those things sometimes, But, i am proud to say i am not perfect. No one is ... - Jamie Holzheimer
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers. - Piers Anthony
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. - John Dewey
If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact. - Hugh Macleod
It’s my opinion that only in times of utter depression or lofty peace is it appropriate to be creative. - Nicholas Trandahl
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice. - Hugh Macleod
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. - Diane Ackerman
Every thought is a creative energy that moves the universe to action. - Réné Gaudette
The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit. - David Williamson Shaffer
A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration. - VIRGIL PROFEANU
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. - Stephen Jay Gould
Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul. - Michele Jennae
Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. - Martin Luther King Jr.
If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case. - Hugh Macleod
It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Innovation lies in a creative mind - Lailah Gifty Akita
am a creative beingA Being that You createdYou have unselfishly given me talentAnd I am here to showcase itAll in praise of YouYou are the spirit within meYou are the driving forceI, Thank YouO, GodI, Thank You - Sandra Proto
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support Innovative Teaching practices within our schools, and that's what will make our students succeed in the 21st century - Samer Chidiac
Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative. - Seth Adam Smith
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. - Lawrence Clark Powell
All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. - Marcel Duchamp
Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives. - Amit Kalantri
The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work your hands. - Euginia Herlihy
Truly creative people in all fields can temporarily suspend their ego and simply experience what they are seeing, without the need to assert a judgment, for as long as possible. They are more than ready to find their most cherished opinions contradicted by reality. - Robert Greene (Author) Joost Elffers (Author)
If you seek creative ideas go walking.Angels whisper to a man when he goes fora walk. - Raymond I. Myers
Without peace, we cannot be creative. - Kamlesh D. Patel
The 'magic' is the known and unknown quiet, spiritual, invisible thread which links and reveals harmonic elements to a universe of high vibrational sensory. And our beloved Bro. Maurice David knew it's undeniable creative power, from within. - T.F. Hodge
Creative people, especially those who are just starting out, feel that they have to conform and be a mass-produced product in order to be noticed. The truth of the matter is that genuineness and unconventionality is often what helps make a mark on the world. - Veronika Carnaby
Limited money and family obligations have never stopped a man who really wanted to do something, although they provide excuses for a man who is not really up to the creative challenge in the first place. Find out today whether you are willing to do what it takes. - David Deida
Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself. - Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act. - E.M. Forster
The Imagination is one of the important stuff to be creative from there to be a creator! - Deyth Banger
Every worker should know that by working, he is releasing the nature of God in him. He is becoming creative just like God is creative. - Sunday Adelaja
The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . . - Marianne Williamson
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. - Friedrich Nietzsche
When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy. - Michael Bassey Johnson
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. - Piaget
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. - Pablo Picasso
You are magnificent - a jewel reflecting inwardly and outwardly, the light of the universe. Observe how you respond to beauty everywhere - you bear witness to everything. Be aware that you, yourself, are an inextricable part of the infinite creative intelligence, and be blessed. - Jay Woodman
Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas. - Lauren Hammond
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. - Carl Jung
To be creative is to look Madness in the eye and challenge it to a spitting contest. - River Fairchild
Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us. - Edgar Douglas Adrian
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. - Ansel Adams
If you want to live a creative life, get efficient at failing. - Matthew Donnelly
The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok) - Steven Heighton
The creative hopeless. - Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)
Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination. - Christina Westover
Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. - Karl Lagerfeld
Be who you are called and created to "Be" ...and that is "Different" because nothing that is "Worthwhile" and "Priceless" is not the same.... that is what makes you "Unique".... because if we were ALL the same there would not be anything worth calling creative.... - Chrissy Bee
Design is an art, creative artist must have a beautiful mind - Bhupesh B. Patil
If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination. - Matthew Donnelly
The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art. - Nikki Rowe
Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. - Alan Cohen
A creative life has nothing to do with where you’re from or how much money you earn. It’s merely a reflection of the creative intellect. - Anthony Marais
Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that emerges when it breaks. - F.T. McKinstry
Besides your mouth, your mind is a powerful tool given to you by God. Use your mind; control your mind, don't let it control you! Your imaginative power is your creative ability. - Paul Silway
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. - Alan Alda
Just as thoughts, send out vibrations to which there is a creative and attractive power, gratitude stimulates the field of etheric energy that surrounds you on a subtle level to bring into your life more of what brings you joy. - Genevieve Gerard
A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman's crowning creative experience of a lifetime. - John Stevenson
The most important thing is to be as attentive and aware as possible, with our senses awakened and our ability to love utterly intact, so that we can exist right here and right now, and enjoy life and be creative, trapped in neither the past nor the future. - A. G. Roemmers
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. - Doris Lessing
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act. - Kenneth Rexroth
There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind. - Deepak Chopra
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative, but his traditional Christianity took mental risks. - John Mark Reynolds
It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions that seem utterly different, and to be able to Connect the seemingly Unconnected". - William Plomer
One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as many ...
Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed. - Amit Kalantri
It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one. - E. Paul Torrance
The less gear you use, the more you grow as a photographer. Although there are fewer options available, you'll find more creative ways to capture what you feel! In a way, all your technical options before turn into creative solutions that improve your photography even more. - Marius Vieth
Don't Stop Searching Until You Find Creative & Gainful Unemployment - Dean Cavanagh
We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just trying. You don't need to make a big leap—you - need to take a thousand small steps. - James Jorash
I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better. - Richelle E. Goodrich
I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. - Stephen King
Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers? - Robert Black
When starting out, don’t worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way. - H. Jackson Brown
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way. - Eric Hoffer
See life as an adventure. There is no security in being feeble. Be brave, be exciting. Be creative. Live’. - Ane Krstevska
Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.
Being creative is not something you do. Its something you are. Each moment of ur life is creative - Abhinav Srivastava
Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination. Never stop playing, and never stop imagining! - Carmela Dutra
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive - Karl Lagerfeld
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless. - Eugene H. Peterson
Fire can destroy everything, but it is also the most important creative force. - Debasish Mridha
I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage. - Rita Mae Brown
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud
Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation. - Debasish Mridha
It is better to be creative than curious. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively. - Debasish Mridha
Thoughts have creative energy exhilaration is required to creates dissolves and recreates. - Kishore Bansal
The most creative approach is often the simple approach. - Phil Cooke
On the canvas of life, you are the creative painter of your success. Paint your life into a wonderful masterpiece of excellence. - Mark F. LaMoure
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created. - Brenda Ueland
They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better the secret entrusted to them at the outset; their creative effort goes into an unending exegesis, a commentary on that one couplet of poetry assigned to them. - Bruno Schulz
It's not true that we lose our creative genius when we grow older, but we grow older because we forget to use our creative genius. - Debasish Mridha
Be creative, be innovative, consume what everyone consumes and make it fresh! - Kevin Focke
Be creative! Write, sing, dance, paint, whatever you do, make something for your Maker! - Marja Meijers
I am not smart,clever,quick,nor creative all the time,i'm barely even those things sometimes, But, i am proud to say i am not perfect. No one is ... - Jamie Holzheimer
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. - Stephen Nachmanovitch
Being creative, joyful, happy, and beloved are the ultimate purposes of a profound life. - Debasish Mridha
Never fear having your ideas stolen. Your creative idea is a image you are painting like a picture on a canvas, they may "steal" your idea, however they cannot steal your paints. - Sumner Davenport
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. - Richard Branson
The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good. - John G. Lake
I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive. - Christina Aguilera
Complaining from lack of food doesn't always affect my emotions. complaining from lack of knowledge, passion, creative ideas and happiness always does. - Sameh Elsayed
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce
An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action. - Debasish Mridha
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