Charles Handy Quotes

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

Charles Handy

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• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Soul
  • Creativity
  • Meaning

• Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Walking
  • Creativity
  • Feet

• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Creativity

• I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Creativity
  • Therapy

• Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Creativity
  • Creation
  • Meaningful

• In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Education

• There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Work
  • Different
  • Creativity

• When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Creativity

• Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Success
  • Political
  • Creativity

• A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Work
  • Music
  • Art

• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Service
  • Born
  • Room

• Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Cold
  • Reputation
  • Room

• The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • First
  • Room

• None of you knows what creativity means. To paint a picture, to write a poem? No! To recast one’s whole age, to impose upon it the stamp of one’s will, to fill it with beauty, to overwhelm it, to overpower it with one’s spirit.

  

  Christian Morgenstern
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Creativity

• The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • People
  • Art
  • Creativity

• I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Me

• If I hadn't won at the Worlds and claimed so many ranking points, I would have been struggling for Rio. I'm in a good place now, though, and having the chance to fight for gold in Rio after everything I've been through would be a dream.

  

  Bianca Walkden
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Gold

• I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.

• Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Creativity
  • Room
  • Experiment