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Creativity Quotes
"The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it."
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"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."
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"Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient."
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"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
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"I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea."
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"If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting."
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"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
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"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation."
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
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"You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity."
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"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one."
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"But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years."
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"As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances."
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"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here."
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"Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the parts that are original are not good."
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"A good writer is a magician, she unfolds the dark secrets of mind."
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"And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless."
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"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
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"Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever."
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"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."
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"Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity."
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"Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas."
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"Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it."
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"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years."
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"It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea."
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"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
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"Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either."
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"I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule."
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"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."
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"Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof."
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"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers."
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"I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher."
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"You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else."
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"What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be."
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"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."
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"Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter."
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"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
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"Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer."
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"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."
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"Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians."
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"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
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"I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives."
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"Let your imagination takes you to where you wish to be."
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"As an author, I want to write what I'm inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I'm writing."
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"Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."
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"You have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing."
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"Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear."
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