Creativity Quotes

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

Secret, Knowing, Hide

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, Creative, Able

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury

Enemy, Thinking, Try

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

Art, Yourself, Mistakes

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson

Leadership, Best, Character

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.
Marilyn Monroe

Gay, Human, Humanity

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
Abdul Kalam

Leadership, Become, Moral

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

Computers, Become, Personal

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath

Life, Enemy, Everything

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono

Life, Great, Hope

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
T. S. Eliot

Anxiety, Hand, Maiden

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Deepak Chopra

Love, Beauty, Leadership

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Edward de Bono

Powerful, Simple, Important

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
Mitt Romney

Money, Friends, Free

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

Courage, Requires

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner

Life, Die, While

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso

Good, Enemy, Sense

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren

Life, Love, Age

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land

Afraid, Fail, Essential

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.
David Duchovny

Touch, Anxiety, Within

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
James Russell Lowell

After, Making, Found

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
Mason Cooley

Makes, Looks, Leap

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Jean Dubuffet

Means, Insanity, Normal

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
Bo Bennett

Motivation, Excitement, Enthusiasm

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
Madeleine L'Engle

Dark, Sometimes, Seems

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
Donatella Versace

Ideas, Conflict

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Edward de Bono

Different, Order, Breaking

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
Jimmy Buffett

Success, Humor, Keep

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Greg Anderson

Life, Love, Experience

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
David Walliams

Alone, Happy, Young

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