Creative Quotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand

Others, Desire, Achieve

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.

Light, Darkness, Whether

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Art, Knowledge, Teacher

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Made, Almost, Minority

The question is not whether 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.

Nation, Question, Whether

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

Age, Mind, Thinking

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein

Art, True, Artist

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

Life, Mind, Solitude

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein

Science, Real, Old

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy

Fitness, Important, Body

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

After, Creativity, Able

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama

Change, Time, Government

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Read, Reading

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

Change, Power, Freedom

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Reading

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Lao Tzu

Great, Beginning, Heaven

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.
Marilyn Monroe

Human, Control, Bit

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.
Denis Waitley

Life, Future, Become

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Happens, Cause, Movement

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Steve Jobs

Life, Best, Successful

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness, Joy, Effort

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert Camus

Society, Based, Productive

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater

Time, Equality, Liberty

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey

Life, Through, Decisions

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
Suzanne Vega

Humor, Smart, Character

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

Mind, Play, Acting

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson

Business, Fun, Exercise

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung

Works, Fantasy, Origin

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

Men, Confidence, Themselves

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill Gates

Computers, Problems, Able

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