"And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them."

Creativity, Idea, Ideas, Energy, Talking

29

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them."

Exlpore more Creativity quotes

"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Creativity, Talent, Effort, Writing, Ability

"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Creativity, Genius, Art, History

"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Creativity, Writing, Life, Awareness, Gift

"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Creativity, Artists, World, Thoughts, Deeds

"Her words dance on the page."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Creativity, Word, Dance, Expression

"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Creativity, Social, Isolation, Advantage

"The most powerful creative state to bring your desires into reality is by bring the conscious and subconscious into unison then keeping your heart and mind in perfect sync."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Creativity, Consciousness, Subconscious, Power

"I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Creativity, Inspirational, Writing, Expression

"I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Creativity, Music, Focus, Distraction

"I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Creativity, Imagination, Truth, Reflection, Insight

Explore more quotes by Cameron Crowe

"Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist."

Age, Love, Movies, Music

"Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home."

Home, Music, Challenge, Song

"In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about."

Life, Future

"Time puts things in proper perspective."

Time, Perspective

"People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while."

Music, People, Dance

"Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies."

Movies, Project, Writer

"It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well."

Film, Spirit

"And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them."

Creativity, Idea, Ideas, Energy, Talking