C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. That joy that comes when you do something you love. That small voice that tells you, 'I like this. Do this again. You are good at it. Keep going.' That is the juicy stuff that lubricates our lives and helps us feel less alone in the world.”
Source: Yes Please
“Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don't let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, "honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry." Good to remember.”
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
“Creativity is curiosity.”
“Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.”
Source: The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
“Creativity is discontent translated into arts.”
“Creativity is divided into two: Creating something unique and creating something similar! For example, in photography, it's usually the latter case!”
“Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.”
Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn
“Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.”
Source: Creative person and creative process
“Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.”
“Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.”
“Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.”
“Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.”
Source: Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe
“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.”
“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.”
“Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.”
Source: Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent
“Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.”
Source: It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond
“Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.”
“Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.”
“Creativity is great-but not in accounting.”
“Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.”
“Creativity is how the soul prays. Pray often.”
“CREATIVITY IS HOW YOU PRACTICE YOUR KNOWLEDGE”
“Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.”
“Creativity is in the heart of the dreamer.”
Source: My Gift to You: The Comfort Zone
“Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.”
“Creativity is Inspiration having fun”
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
“Creativity is just about connecting things. A whole lot of nonsense put together, and diluted with a creative passion can eventually make sense. Keep thinking. Exploring. Keep trying out new ways and methods of doing things and just when you least expect, you may stumble on that next great world-changing idea that will make all the difference.”
“Creativity is just connecting things.”
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.”
“Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.”
“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
“Creativity is like chasing chickens.”
“Creativity is like the ocean: sometimes it is an unstoppable wave bursting forth, crashing onto the shore, and overwhelmingly flowing with no hope of restraint; other times it is completely still, lingering aimlessly and endlessly, seemingly devoid of any inspiration.”
“Creativity is magic in the making.”
“Creativity is magic. When we create something, we add a little bit of magic to the Universe.”
“Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.”
“Creativity is mistakes.”
“Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
“Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.”
Source: Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking
“Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.”
“Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.”
“Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.”
“Creativity is never too contrived.”
“Creativity is no big deal.”
“Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior”
Source: No Time to Die
“Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.”