Creativity Quotes
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Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.
Caroline Kennedy
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Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.
Danny Barker
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DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life.
Charles Best
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I try to stay focused on my creativity.
Christina Aguilera
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Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
William Bernbach
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By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.
Chin-Ning Chu
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Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.
James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
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Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.
Naveen Jain
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It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
Lady Bird Johnson
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When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity.
Garry Shandling
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When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.
Billy Higgins
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Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
Ken Robinson
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Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.
Steve Jobs
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Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.
Edmund Phelps
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To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators. They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. Teaching is an art form. Great teachers know they have to cultivate curiosity, passion and creativity in their students.
Ken Robinson
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Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
Ken Robinson
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I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.
Melanie Laurent
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Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.
Mary Daly
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Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.
Jef I. Richards
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
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And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.
Billy Sherwood Yes
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It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new form. Britten's Nocturne, for example, which unifies musically a group of poems by different hands, is a notable example of his power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
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I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.
Martina McBride