I think that the people who are the loudest about wanting to change you are the people with the least amount of vision and creativity.

I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

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.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

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.

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

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.

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.

While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks.

Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.

The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.

Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.

I think every part of our lives begins at an energetic level. Like creativity. You can't separate anything from that archetypal process.

Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.

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.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" - like not on furniture or the walls.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

What I love about our show is that it's so nuanced and feels very real to me. I think how it explores creativity in general is very real.

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.

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

What happens at the beginning of any creative process? Nothing! Creativity requires that we create space and wait for something to emerge.

Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.

The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

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.

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