Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Unfortunately a lot of Bristol's creativity just gets marooned in Bristol. It is a cool place though, maybe too laidback for its own good.

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.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.

the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.

...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

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.

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

What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology.

My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.

Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.

Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.

Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.

I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

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.

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

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