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I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.
I enjoy collaborating with all of the directors I have worked with. I love collaborating with creative people on interesting projects.
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.
At Airbnb, we're trying to build a culture that supports details, celebrates them, and gives our teams creative license to pursue them.
My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.
I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.
When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of ideas.
I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.
The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
It is such a treat to see two of my most favourite creative people in one frame - Rajamouli sir and Amitabh sir. They are so inspiring.
Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.
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.
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.
I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, I would say.
The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.
I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.
Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.
After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.
I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.
The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.
I stopped doing comics because I found the pressure really high to nail it every time. It's really difficult to be creative all the time.
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.
Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince.
My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.
I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.
There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.
You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.
I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.
Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.
As a chef, I got into this because I love the creative energy and I love the science, but I also love to feed people and make them happy.
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.
You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.
I started producing out of necessity. It's not that I want to become a full time producer, but it gives me control over my creative life.
In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.
Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.
The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.
I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.