Creativity QuotesReading creativity quotes and sayings about creativity can certainly inspire you to take creative action. I’m happy to report creative action always, always, always leads to joy attraction. What creative action excites you? Explore it and make time to try it. To be who we were born to be, we must express our unique type of creativity. The world is waiting for your contributions. Just as you are waiting for the perfect time and place to explore your full potential. Well – guess what? The time is NOW. The place is right where you are. And the universe and tons of highly trained angels are standing by with unlimited miracles to get you on the express lane to creating whatever you are here to create. Get started by taking a creative action baby step everyday, even if it only takes ten minutes. Set up an area at home for creative ‘play.’ It’s a sacred space for planting and nourishing the seeds of your creative dreams. If you need any help, I’m an e-mail away… Marta@joyofquotes.com Let’s play…  There is no such thing as an idle thought. All thought creates form on some level. Every thought leads to either love or fear. A Course in Miracles 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 Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. Alan Alda People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself. Teresa M. Amabile I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. Maya Angelou You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being. Silvano Arieti The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit. Angeles Arrien Creative individuals place a high value on fun because it enables them to soar in their other pursuits. Jordan Ayan Mortals must do what they are here to do creatively or they will become cranky. Jill Badonsky There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. Henri Bergson 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 Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. Rita Mae Brown The first step to being creative is to get rid of your own unwritten rules. Mary M. Byers Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness. Julia Cameron Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem. Julia Cameron In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express. Julia Cameron In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it. Julia Cameron Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. Julia Cameron Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking. Julia Cameron The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. Julia Cameron A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Frank Capra All creative people are kids at heart. You’ve got to play – do stuff that’s definitely not work to get off the linear approach to creative work. I keep yo-yos in my office and I play solitaire on my computer. Steve Carmichael Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. Liz Carpenter If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. John Cleese Laughter is the best creative medicine. John Cleese Each of us possesses a creative self. Claiming that is a transformational art. When you begin to act on your creativity,what you find inside may be more valuable than what you produce for the external world. The ultimate creative act is to express what is most authentic and individual about you. Eileen M. Clegg The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward. Alan Cohen Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. Mary Lou Cook Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together. Steven R. Covey Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naïve at the same time… Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives…most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity…when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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. Miles Davis It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. Miles Davis Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself. Miles Davis We are weaving the future on the loom of today. Grace Stricker Dawson Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits. Edward de Bono Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Edward de Bono Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Edward de Bono Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. Edward de Bono Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing. Edward de Bono Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting. Edward de Bono There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. Edward de Bono It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Creativity is work that goes some place: it is sustained effort toward an ideal. Michael Drury Creativity means believing you have greatness. Wayne Dyer Creativity is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." Thomas Alva Edison There are no rules here. We're trying to accomplish something! Thomas Alva Edison I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Albert Einstein I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires a creative imagination and marks the real advances in science. Albert Einstein To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition. Albert Einstein In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. Ralph Waldo Emerson The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let if first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Epictetus 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. Clarissa Pinkola Estes Creativity is an act of self-discovery. Sebastion Esteverena Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done. Rudolf Flesch Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time. Debbie Ford Creativity is an attitude that transcends paradigms and beliefs.It's a soul level yearning to fulfill a purpose, uniquely contribute and leave a mark. Janice Francisco The capacity to be puzzled is…the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. Erich Fromm You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong. John W. Gardner Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request and everything your heart desires must come to you. Shakti Gawain Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. Michael J. Gelb A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All of us can create if we allow ourselves to. Natalie Goldberg The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not. J. P. Guilford When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. Cynthia Heimel Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express. Oliver Herring The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. Eric Hofer When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God. Ernest Holmes We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world. Barbara Marx Hubbard The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation. Robert Iger Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you. Judith Jamison The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. Anthony Jay All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. Carl Jung 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 Life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. Martin Luther King, Jr. Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. Arthur Koestler An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin Land Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. Theodore Levitt Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois 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 Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. James Lowell In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. James Lowell It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. Thomas Macaulay A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate symphony. Abraham Maslow Almost all creativity involves purposeful play. Abraham Maslow The key question isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be now why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything. Abraham Maslow Trust the process of the subtle push toward art and creative expression from inside you – it is the gentle call of your heart and renewed search for soul. It is an opening to expansion of your expressive abilities and the discovery of hidden limitations ready to be challenged. Be open to what it means, it has many possibilities for action in every part of your life. Ultimately it will lead to significant personal changes – to living life in a new way with new tools of creative expression. Donald William Mathews All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain’s fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play. Robert Maurer Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death. Rollo May We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment. Rollo May The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else. Harold R. McAlindon Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit. Shaun McNiff Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed. Shaun McNiff Can you imagine experiencing the world as a great sandbox given for us to play in like we did as children? As we play, we can also open ourselves to the exploration of our edges, always creating new adventures of self-exploration as we let go of old out-dated beliefs about ourselves. Judith-Annette Milburn Paint as you like and die happy. Henry Miller Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingus We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it’s creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us. Edgar Mitchell The mind needs exercise as much as the body does. John Morgan Curiosity is the key to creativity. Akio Morita The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original. Tom Morris Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. Bill Moyers The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around…The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance. Stephen Nachmanovitch Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. Stephen Nachmanovitch The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. Stephen Nachmanovitch The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. Stephen Nachmanovitch What is creativity? I define creativity as the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing. Innovation is the production or implementation of a creative idea. If you have ideas, but don't act on them, you are imaginative but not creative. Linda Naiman Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make. Kent Nerburn An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Isaac Newton Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. Earl Nightingale Everything begins with an idea. Earl Nightingale If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. Alfred Nobel Creativity is imagining possibilities and making them real. Marta Davidovich Ockuly Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you’re plugged in, a spontaneous combustion occurs that ‘artists’ don’t have a monopoly on. Judith Orloff Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style. Alex Osborn It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. Alex Osborn Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking. Alex Osborn Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence. Osho To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Pearce To me books on butterflies or baseball are more legitimate in terms of thinking about business strategy issues. Tom Peters Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. William Plomer 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 A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand Creativity when not used turns to depression. Henri Reiman We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will not give us peace until we do. M. C. Richards Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what’s out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different. Jim Rohn You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity. Jim Rohn Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt Knowing a lot…is a springboard to creativity. Charlie Rose Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts. Salmon Rushdie There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness. Bertrand Russell It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stuffing and unexpected findings of science. Carl Sagan To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest. SARK Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife. Jonathan Schattke The spirit of entrepreneurship includes imagination, inventiveness and openness to the new. This spirit of creative response aligns with the capacity to exercise moral imagination and to see ethical problems in a new light. To be sure, our most fundamental ethical values -- values such as honesty, avoiding doing harm, keeping commitments -- are grounded in timeless traditions and are not likely to be soon abandoned. But it is in the application of these ethical values to emerging, unique situations, where moral imagination and the entrepreneurial spirit can make a decisive difference. David Schmidt It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. Vida D. Scudder The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around. “The Secret” I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Dr. Seuss Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw Creativity is…seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God. Michele Shea Research shows that 90%t of 5 year olds are creative, but only 2% of adults are. Lee Silber Creativity is our highest and greatest response to all that is within us, and all that surrounds us, and, thus, it is our raison d'etre, individually and collectively. Algene Steele In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? Igor Stravinsky I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life. D.T. Suzuki Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. Twyla Tharp Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea. Charles Thompson Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. Henry David Thoreau Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act. Jeffry Timmons All the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. Eckhart Tolle All true artists, whether they know it or not, create form a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. Eckhart Tolle Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is ‘ride the wave’. Eckhart Tolle Why should we all use our creative power….? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money. Brenda Ueland Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. Alice Walker Thought is pure energy. Every thought you have, have ever had, and ever will have is creative. The energy of your thought never dies. Ever. It leaves your being and heads out into the universe, extending forever. A thought is forever. Neale Donald Walsch Creativity is a rare part of living. It's fundamental. None of us can squelch our creativity without feeling less than whole, incomplete and depressed. Lynn Weiss During those rare moments of creativeness, when an ordinary person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence, of moving beyond his daily life. What could be a greater reward? Joseph Zinker The creative person seems to have a special talent for dipping into his intuitive, image-filled right hemisphere while harnessing the illuminating experience with his left brain. Steven Zinker Return from Creativity Quotes and Sayings about Creativity to Quotes Listed by Subject
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