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All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.
— Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Productivity is about looking forward. Looking back too much, or trying to be too much of a perfectionist, can destroy that productivity. So keep going. Keep creating. Keep building.
— Audrey Moralez
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
— Ernst Haas
It's a silly argument, and unnecessary. Creativity doesn't happen "in here" or "out there" but in the spaces in between. Creativity is a relationship, one that unfolds at the intersection of person and place.
— Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.
— Philip Sidney, The defence of poesy
Big thoughts roam in big places. If you want to expand your thinking, expand your geography.
— Audrey Moralez
Einstein's secretary once said that if Einstein were born among the polar bears, he would still be Einstein. But unless polar bears were well versed in theoretical physics, that is not true. Einstein would not be Einstein. Which is not to take anything away from Einstein, or the polar bears, but simply to point out that he was part of a creative ecology, and trying to isolate him from it is not only silly but futile.
— Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Our differences will also show up from time to time, underscoring the uniqueness of our personal endowments, the variety of our experiences, and the creativity of our sovereign God.
— J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities
The “Boxes” are the walls in your mind.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
Being authentic means to be who you are, discover your strength and uniqueness, be yourself, even if you are not perfect, and nobody is.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
A high-performing digital mind can think logically, but outside of the box as well.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
To be creative you must set aside both certainty and doubt.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
A writer is a thought smith
—  he educates men to think for themselves
Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.
— Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way
The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Out of Box” is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective.
— Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles
An innovative mind allows “the creative flow” to open up for information abundance.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Master: Debunk the Myths of Enterprise Digital Maturity
Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I am what I have ever read
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I felt nothing change in the room, except the shock of my voice alone and the peculiar euphoria one feels in the wake of applause, feeling at once cheapened and triumphant.
— Jessie Burton, The Muse
An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
The most important thing is to be as attentive and aware as possible, with our senses awakened and our ability to love utterly intact, so that we can exist right here and right now, and enjoy life and be creative, trapped in neither the past nor the future.
— A.G. Roemmers
We each possess the ability creatively to respond to the ontological mystery of our existence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Our personal story has many chapters that reconnoiter universal themes. We each struggle to understand ourselves and aspire to make ourselves known to the world. We struggle to win the love of other people. We seek to pick all the low hanging fruit that we come across in our journey through the corridor of time. We write our story in the Niagara of emotional experiences that flowing watercourse makes us human. We use a profusion of words, symbols, and the nuances pulled from a rich library of language to depict the cascade of our visions, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, dreams, and infelicitous thoughts. We use logical and dialectal thought processes when communing with our inner self. We use self-speak along with the esemplastic powers of poetic imagination, sprinkled with the fizz of creativity, to cohere disparate chapters of our life into a unified whole and relay the effervescence of our story to other people.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A writer is never alone, he is always with himself
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.
— Robert Greene
You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
A creative person aspires to devote the core state of their mind fixated upon performing the surge of work that expresses the raw passion driving an evolving notion of their quintessence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
You never know what you will write until you write it
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
You cannot write if you are not angry
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Creativity is the ability to create novel value, creative mind is defined as the originator.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
All humans are born with raw creativity ability, but not all creativities are created equal.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Creativity needs encouragement as food, and conflict to spark it.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
You cannot write if you are not on fire
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
[Beware of] the fallacy of misplaced concreteness [mistaking an abstraction for concrete reality, for actuality] In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.Error is the price we pay for progress.In the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.Creativity is the universal of universals characterizing ultimate matter of fact. It is that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively. It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, "Seek simplicity and distrust it."It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.[From various of Whitehead's books, not only PR]
— Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality
Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Creativity alone, for those who follow God, isn't sufficient. Not even ongoing creativity. Our creativity, like God's, must be aimed at something good. We need redemptive creativity - creativity that aims not just for success, but freedom; and not just for ourselves, but for others and for the good of creation as a whole.
— Ken Wytsma, Create vs. Copy: Break Through with Imagination
The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
A writer is never alone
—  he is always in conversation with himself
Writing is self-pleasure
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Writing is magic happening on paper
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a "like" and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.
— Fred Rogers, You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
Look under your bed and you will know the greatest thief in your room.
— ABC
To fight adversity, to improvise, to solve problems, and to save the coup, I had gathered all my senses into unusual configurations, which made me grow wild and enhanced my perceptions.
— Philippe Petit, Creativity: The Perfect Crime
When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church.
— Sylvia Plath
All of us [writers] failed to match our dream of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. In my opinion, if I could write all my work again, I am convinced that I would do it better, which is the healthiest condition for an artist. That’s why he keeps on working, trying again; he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won’t, which is why this condition is healthy. Once he did it, once he matched the work to the image, the dream, nothing would remain but to cut his throat, jump off the other side of that pinnacle of perfection into suicide. I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
— William Faulkner
When you become too predictable you lose your brand's luster.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.
— Nicholas Negroponte
Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.
— Stewart Stafford
Innovation invasion is a brand's wheel that turns fortunes
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
...the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating... that collectedness and presence of mind...the right frame of mind for the artist is only reached when the preparing and the creating, the technical and the artistic, the material and the spiritual, the project and the object, flow together without a break.
— Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery
As artists, we are constantly becoming.
— Creativly, A Passion and a Dream: Inspiring Stories of Actors, Writers, et. al., on the Eve of Their Big Break
Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new
— Adam Grant, Originals
Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new.
— Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World
It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense.
— Pearl Zhu, Leadership Master: Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity
Creative leadership can be described as “adaptability meets agility,” and “innovation meets principles.
— Pearl Zhu
In Nigeria creativity is the key to productivity and prosperity to develop our country.
— Saminu Kanti
Creativity is choice-making.
— Robert McKee, Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen
The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself
— Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker
Things wabi-sabi have no need for the reassurance of status or the validation of market culture. They have no need for documentation of provenance. Wabi-sabi-ness in no way depends on knowledge of the creator's background or personality. In fact, it is best if the creator is no distinction, invisible, or anonymous.
— Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Nothing kills creativity faster than a wall.
— Eric    Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
When there's no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside of me, It mixed with my environment and life experiences to make something tangible,something that expressed me.
— Bernard Sumner, Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)
— Donovan L. Graham, Teaching Redemptively: Bringing Grace and Truth Into Your Classroom
While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.
— Donovan L. Graham
Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.
— Kamand Kojouri
The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite.
— George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
There’s no arguing with a song that writes itself.
— Clifford Cohen
He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something.
— Edmund de Waal, The White Road: Journey into an Obsession
When people say writers spend a lot of time staring, rather than writing, do not be fooled. A writer does not blankly stare. Instead, she sees everything before her. Millions of plotting paths, endless words to choose from, and every possible outcome. Writers see their world as it is, as it could be; as it will be. And in the end make it as it should be.
— Kimberlee Ann Bastian
Most Christian teachers would profess to believe that their students are made in the image of God. . .Classroom practices, however, often reveal that students are not treated accordingly. They are not challenged to think through issues and carefully examine the various positions relevant to the issue. Instead they are simply given information as correct answers to be remembered and reproduced on a test or in some other written form. Rather than create an art project that reveals something about the way they view the world, they are given specific instructions for completing each step of the project and criticized, for example, if the trees are not green. While verbally teaching Johnny that he is an important person, a teacher may employ a learning model or classroom discipline system that clearly treats him as on object to be shaped and controlled by a system. . . (p18)
— Donovan L. Graham, Teaching Redemptively: Bringing Grace and Truth Into Your Classroom
Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the buried gold.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Mine Your Gold: How to Dig Up and Optimize Your Hidden Greatness
We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin. . .if the question is, how do you make a poem by Pushkin?- or, what exactly makes one poem or painting or piece of music greater than another?- or, what is beauty?, or liberty?, or virtue?- if the question is, how should we live?. . . then, reason gives no answer or different answers. So something went wrong. The divine spark in man is not reason after all, but something else, some kind of intuition or vision, perhaps like the moment of inspiration experienced by the artist . . .
— Tom Stoppard, Voyage
Here’s something to think about: the only thing you really own is what you create. And the only thing you can create without needing someone else to give you the raw materials first… is intellectual property.You can write a book, or draw a picture, or compose some music.Everything else is borrowed. It belonged to someone else before you and it will belong to someone else after you.
— Caliban Darklock
Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words
Remember first that everything you think, say, and do is a reflection of what you've decided about yourself; a statement of Who You Are; an act of creation in your deciding who you want to be.
— Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 2
I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything.
— Eric Thomas
Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process
—  frustration is the process.
Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact.
— Seth Godin
The journey of life, creates my art!!!
— Michael Judkins
I am not covetous, but as ambitious as ever any of my sex was, is, or can be; which makes, that though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First; and although I have neither power, time, not occasion to conquer the world as Alexander and Caesar did; yet rather than not be mistress of one, since Fortune and Fates would give me none, I have made a world of my own; for which nobody, I hope, will blame me, since it is in everyone's power to do the like.
— Margaret Cavendish
Life is a lonely business
— Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Innovation is simply a holistic approach to exploring extra ordinary work to birthing products or services. Innovation is the magic!
— Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
For some strange reason I get some of my brightest ideas on the toilet seat, with my clothes on.
— E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds
Dreaming is easy. Creativity is a lot of work.
— E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds
Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The Dean's Watch
It was creative, not financial success that thrilled Walt.
— Leslie Le Mon, The Disneyland Book of Secrets 2014 - Dca: One Local's Unauthorized, Rapturous and Indispensable Guide to the Happiest Place on Earth
Life is a lonely bussiness
— Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
I’ve been firmly grounded in reality since I was a child, and I’m still waiting for it to impress me.
— Jessica Conoley
We create intellectual property on a daily basis, but all of it is not worthy of attention
— Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala
Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains.
— Henri Bergson
The more at ease you are in the world, the more vibrant, creative and easygoing the world in you becomes.
— Laurie Perez, Breakthrough: How to Have Compassion for Those Who Do Harm
Those who can create, will create. Those who cannot create, will compete.
— Michael F. Bruyn, The Philosopher's Toolbox for Entrepreneurs
Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
— Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.
— Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
Point your fire like a flower.
— Annie Finch, Calendars
Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity
— Phillip Gary Smith, HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life
To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.
— Charlotte Wood
According to Christ, the pathway to revelation, the heart of revival, and the fullness of the Kingdom of God is becoming child- like. Becoming dependent as children in our relationship with our heavenly Father forces us to lose our religious mindsets and protocol. Staying in a place of wonder and trust will keep us from becoming easily offended by the ways God chooses to manifest Himself in our lives.
— Theresa Dedmon, Born to Create: Stepping Into Your Supernatural Destiny
Your creativity is way older than you are, way older than any of us. Your very body and your very being are perfectly designed to live in collaboration with inspiration, and inspiration is still trying to find you—the same way it hunted down your ancestors.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Physicists have yet to find anything capable of exceeding our known speed of light. The Tao cannot be named, and so I say there is one thing that out-paces all things: we call it “thought.” I can fill a room a with light before I’m anywhere near the switch.
— Laurie Perez, Atomic Truths and Stellar Seeking: A Joybroker's Guide to the Stars Inside
Bringing a novel to light - revealing the form and cadence, shadows and demeanor of a protagonist constructed from thin air - linking scenes and synchronicity across translucent time - holding up a glass brimming with chilled, never-tasted liquid, then sipping from it with intoxicated focus - allowing lovers to make a perilous mess of things, fall apart and nakedly come back together again - looking through conjured windows deep into someone else’s snow-bound solitude, feeling utterly alone yet being all-connected: this is not writing. It’s world-creating.It’s raw, exposed dreaming. It’s humbling. At first too personal and intimate to share, it evolves like a child into a life of its own until I have no say in what comes next. It’s what I wake at 4am to say Yes to, the spinning possibility of a new story relentlessly commanding me to write it down so it can whirl in your experience.
— Laurie Perez
You think an idea's bad but to others, it's a brilliant idea. Instead of thinking that an idea is bad, look at it differently and the final outcome of this "bad" idea will shock you. Rules should be followed. It is a tradition to know what can and can't be done. But innovation doesn't require the boundaries rules provide. It is when you stop following that you start having unexpected fun.
— Tina Seelig, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
When creativity is running rampant, it is imperative that we get carried away by it never knowing what we will create or whom we will inspire!
— Ingrid Ancona
Done is better than none. You could have all the ideas in the world, but without execution, you will go nowhere.
— Sue B. Zimmerman
The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas
— Linus Pauling
Whomsoever embraces their creativity along with their individuality, embraces all possibility deep within.
— H.L. Balcomb, Cinderella In Focus: "Curiosity is the doorway to our personal possibility!" 2nd Edition coming Oct.  31, 2017
I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I’ll write, from this day forward, to please myself
— Virginia Woolf
My greatest treasure is my thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Wondering is illusion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The ecstasy of love is a paradise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Neither compares nor competes. Be creative.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Explore the power of creativity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Explore the power of a beautiful wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The writer’s life is a sacred wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I write the sacred words from wondering.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Failure for one is a source of creativity, build on it and a different story will puzzle itself.
— Unarine Ramaru
The spark of wondering is the start of writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I know something is super creative, when I feel disappointed that I didn't come up with the idea!
— Simón Silva, Cultivate a Creative Mind: A Guide to Regain Creative Confidence
Creativity is improvisation
— Simón Silva, Cultivate a Creative Mind: A Guide to Regain Creative Confidence
Creativity helps us fight off the monotony of everyday life!
— Simón Silva, Cultivate a Creative Mind: A Guide to Regain Creative Confidence
The cards spoke to a suspicion that many whose work is play can never be free of: that you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.
— Helen Oyeyemi, What is Not Yours is Not Yours
Creativity is encountering something unexpected
— Simón Silva, Cultivate a Creative Mind: A Guide to Regain Creative Confidence
...never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.
— Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
Someday they would discover that the stars were not sacred, but made from the same material as their bodies. They would learn it was the stars that created their worlds, that worlds created their minds, that minds created tools, and tools could create stars. Growing, sprawling, thriving until they too became masters of their own understanding, chasing enlightenment with the fervor of having nothing to lose, launching from their homelands like fireworks with glorious yellow tails.
— Jake Vander-Ark, The Day I Wore Purple
The genius inside a person wants activity. It’s connected to the stars
—  it’s connected to a spark and it wants to burn and it wants to make and it wants to create and it has gifts to give. That is the nature of inner genius.
Start small.Start now.Start everything.And don’t bother to finish any of it.
— Barbara Sher, Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative individual must be born again and again in the crucible created by the tension between opposing instincts, conflicted feelings, and contrasting ideas.
— Michael Meade
Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, literally, responsibility. When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them, we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are rendered conscious. Each day, each life, is a series of choices, and as we use the lens of writing to view our lives, we see our choices.
— Julia Cameron, The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are
— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
I don’t experience writer’s block, I only have periods of severe writer’s diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from “the shit” later on.
— Kevin Focke
New freedoms surface old habits. I haven't left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn't trying to mean the words that I write. It's living into the words that I mean. Nonfiction writing can feel like the high art of hypocrisy.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
In the wander land, we engage ourselves in writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is the nature of intuition to spark and guide creativity, and it's an essential ingredient for anything "new" to happen in the world at all.
— Maggie Macnab, Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design
Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores.
— Adam Grant
Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another. By covering our bases financially, we escape the pressure to publish half-baked books, sell shoddy art, or launch untested businesses. When
— Adam Grant, Originals
And be grateful that you’re a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what’s between her ears.
— Barbara Sher, Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
Let’s end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did. You might want to give them away someday, perhaps to someone who needs an idea. Or your great-great-grandchildren might love knowing what a fascinating mind you had. Or your biographer might be very happy after you’re gone.
— Barbara Sher, Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
Think different does not mean to think out of the box. It means to question what the significance of a box is?
— priyavrat gupta
Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.
— Rollo May, The Courage to Create
By the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is so important and why we need to confront the problem of the relationship between creativity and death.
— Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.
— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?
— Stewart Stafford
The concept of encounter also enables us to make clearer the important distinction between talent and creativity. Talent may well have its neurological correlates and can be studied as “given” to a person. A man or woman may have talent whether he or she uses it or not; talent can probably be measured in the person as such. But creativity can be seen only in the act. If we were purists, we would not speak of a “creative person,” but only of a creative act.
— Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment. / For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike / down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment. / For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verb / before the trance leaves you. For working always beyond / your own intelligence.
— Les Murray, New Selected Poems
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.
— Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac with Essays on Conservation from Round River
Mr. Lawrence drank from his beer. Do you know how I figure out what to do? I look under rocks for slime. I lick the slime with my own tongue. I see the problem for what it is, not what a consultant's methodology says it should be. I find people who are working on something that no one told them to work on, who solve a problem because they can't let it stay unsolved, who don't eat or bathe because it takes too much time. I find the ones selling their ideas to customers without going through the marketing department first. I've gotten good at picking molds off cheeses and turning them into penicillin. People used to wonder where my ideas came from. It was simple: I looked for slimy rocks and moldy cheese, and I watched the bank account like a hawk. It worked well for this company for a long time.
— Charlie Close, Before the Ripcord Broke: Stories
These poets and other creative persons are the ones who express being itself, he held. As I would put it, these are the ones who enlarge human consciousness. Their creativity is the most basic manifestation of a man or woman fulfilling his or her own being in the world.
— Rollo May, The Courage to Create
The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.
— Rollo May, The Courage to Create
I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
It tugged at his soul not to talk to other writers about his work. He loved the bank, keeping it secure and compliant with the laws and regulations. People assumed these things happened by magic. They did not. Hauer never talked about it outside the office. He didn't want to make the other writers uncomfortable. If he developed a reputation as someone who brought his work with him to writers conferences they would all turn away, to sip and swizzle their drinks without him.
— Charlie Close, Before the Ripcord Broke: Stories
Nine-tenths of all artistic creation derives its basic energy from the engine of repression and sublimation, and well beyond the strict Freudian definition of those terms.John Fowles attended new College in Oxford. You might like to see my collection of Oxford trees at Rob's Bookshop.
— John Fowles
Begin to think.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando
The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt
— Sylvia Plath
There are two types of limitations: those others place on us, and those we place on ourselves. One is more subtle. Both are equally dangerous.
— Andrena Sawyer
Creativity is the only way a man can ever experience motherhood.
— Girish Kohli
Creativity is magic in the making.
— A.D. Posey
Creativity is divine.
— A.D. Posey
Imagination takes us to the invisible world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be creative, be innovative, consume what everyone consumes and make it fresh!
— Kevin Focke
A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.
— Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship
Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it. I choose to block out all the external (and internal) noise and distractions, and to come home again and again to creativity. Because without that source of wonder, I know that I am doomed. Without it, I will forever wander the world in a state of bottomless dissatisfaction—nothing but a howling ghost, trapped in a body made of slowly deteriorating meat
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Perhaps creativity’s greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
— Immanuel Kant
Creativity is, in many respects, a response.
— Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
There’s plenty of room in this vehicle for all of us, so make yourself at home, but understand this: Creativity and I are the only ones who will be making any decisions along the way. I recognize and respect that you are part of this family, and so I will never exclude you from our activities, but still—your suggestions will never be followed. You’re allowed to have a seat, and you’re allowed to have a voice, but you are not allowed to have a vote.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Always the following wind of historyOf others' wisdom makes a buoyant airTill we come suddenly on pockets where Is nothing loud but us; where voices seemAbrupt, untrained, competing with no lieOur fathers shouted once.
— W.H. Auden
Humans need to be a little crazy, spontaneous, unusual, free-flowing, and creative.
— Stuart Wilde, Whispering Winds of Change
If you want to live a creative life, get efficient at failing.
— Matthew Donnelly
And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like?" I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?
— Patti Digh
We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.
— Jane Yolen, Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft
Our readers are curious, creative, and compassionate fairy punks who are citizens of the world.
— Quail Bell Magazine
Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Instead of asking why they left,now I ask,what beauty will I createin the space the no longeroccupy?
— Rudy Francisco
It starts by forgetting about perfect. We don’t have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable: It’s a myth and a trap and a hamster wheel that will run you to death. The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: “So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it’s also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun... The most evil trick about perfectionism, though, is that it disguises itself as a virtue.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...
— Edgar Degas
And when things get tough, this is what you should do.Make good art.
— Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art
Don’t let the daily routine kill your creativity. Remember who you were before you got that job.
— Morr Meroz, Making an Animated Short
God plants the talent and it grows, sustained by a spirit-given strength to endure, even in the midst of darkness. It thrives in the valleys of life and ignores the peaks. It blooms like a flower when cradled by the warmth of the sun. It remains in a hidden stairwell in a concentration camp. It grows, fed in secret, in the heart of every artist.
— Kristy Cambron, The Butterfly and the Violin
David Bowie was my creative northstar, a muse, an inspiration to me from the age of 8. He was a special soul on a mission, and the mission is now complete. I know he is truly home now among the stars.
— Eileen Anglin
If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.
— James Altucher, The Rich Employee
Stop treating your creativity like it’s a tired, old, unhappy marriage (a grind, a drag) and start regarding it with the fresh eyes of a passionate lover. Even if you have only fifteen minutes a day in a stairwell alone with your creativity, take it. Go hide in that stairwell and make out with your art.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Innovation is the heart of humanity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You can either worry or wonder. The best choice is to wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A mistake is the most beautiful thing in the world.It is the only way you can get to some place you’venever been before. I try to make as many as I can.Making a mistake is the only way that you cangrow.
— E.W. Wainwright
A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials.
— Garry Fitchett, Life Is a Bicycle: A Living Philosophy to Finding Your Authenticity
Imagination is glorious riches of mystery.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Procrastination is a form of punishment
— Jill Badonsky
When we connect to Creator, our sacred character develops.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
He wanted the show to be fresh to audiences 50 years down the line.
— Dick Van Dyke, My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business