C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Creativity is not a gift, it’s a mindset that you practice”
“Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.”
“Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.”
“Creativity is not a substitute for competence.”
“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”
“Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn.”
“Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.”
“Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.”
“Creativity is not and never has been sensible.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.”
“Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.”
“Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.”
“Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.”
“Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.”
“Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.”
Source: Jamming: Art and Discipline of Business Creativit
“Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat....If you keep going long enough you will always get back to where you started from. That is when you have lived a full life. That is the artist's path.”
“Creativity is not merely about cute pictures drawn by kindergartners. It is about the ability to create new enterprises, organizations, and institutions that fundamentally change society.”
Source: Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World?s Problems
“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.”
Source: The Courage to Create
“Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.”
“Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.”
“Creativity is not simply originality and unlimited freedom. There is much more to it than that. Creativity also imposes restrictions. While it uses methods other than those of ordinary thinking, it must not be in disagreement with ordinary thinking-or rather, it must be something that, sooner or later, ordinary thinking will understand, accept, and appreciate. Otherwise the result would be bizarre, not creative.”
“Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.”
“Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.”
“Creativity is not the domain of one single person. Through free-association of thoughts and brainstorming, an accidental suggestion can be the best solution.”
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”
“Creativity is not the possession of some special talent.
It’s about the willingness to play.”
“Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.”
“Creativity is not to be rudely shoved into being”
“Creativity is nothing but the way to design the invisible.”
“Creativity is nothing just a borderless mind.”
“Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
“Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.”
“Creativity is one of the highest transmissions of love.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.”
“Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it is really important to both nurture and encourage this in children - and adults, too!”
“Creativity is one of the powers of Imagination.”
“Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.”
“Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.”
Source: The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
“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.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Creativity is painting the canvas with colors, doing what you do with what you have, knowing the limits and moving beyond.”
“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them."
[Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)]”
“Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.”
“Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.”
“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.”
“Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.”
“Creativity is really at the center of what I do, it's a mix of creativity, innovation and savoir faire that creates magical products.”
“Creativity is really the structuring of magic.”
“Creativity is salve for the soul”
Source: HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life
“Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.”