Best capacity & creative Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.”

“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.”

Individual Social Imagination Accepting Creativity Creative Capable Capacity Pressure Caught Intuition Assumption Questioning Peer Pressure Social Pressure False Assumptions

Author:John W. Gardner

“It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. It’s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. It’s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. It’s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.”

World Trying Eye Opportunity Creative Groups Capacity Colleagues Marketplace Improbable Appreciative

Author:David Cooperrider

“The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.”

Source: The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy

“One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.”

Creative Capacity Conquer Detachment Creative Power

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.”

People Ability Creative Land Capacity Immigration Absorption Yardsticks

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“I immensely enjoy any experience directing. I've never hated it, and I've had bad experiences. At the end of the day, I just feel like I'm supposed to be on a set. I'm supposed to be working with creative people. I'm supposed to be working with actors and I'm supposed to be manning a project in this capacity. It's interesting.”

People Feels Ends Actors Enjoy Interesting Creative Projects Capacity Supposed To Be Hated The End Of The Day Creative People Bad Experiences

Author:Christine Swanson

“Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.”

Humans Would Be Human Beings Company Roles Economy Creative Capacity Concerned Dignity Creator Productivity Circles Metamorphosis Market Economy Full Circle

Author:Joseph Beuys

“I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.”

Ifs Persons Stills Use Age Wanted Creative Type Capacity Substance Be Creative Sober

Author:Macklemore

“In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.”

Energy Natural Economy Creative Intellectual Capacity Organization Favors Collectives Selection Natural Selection Harness Coordinates

Author:Justin Rosenstein

“Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.”

Writing Trying Littles Bits Creative Directors Little Bit Capacity Marketing Evening These Days Agency Juice Creative Juices

Author:Ian Doescher

“A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.”

Knows World Should Artist Order Given Creative Study Creating Capacity Labor Including Almighty Avoiding Rivals Creative Writers Duplication

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.”

Ifs Knows Way Mean Running Kids Lost Business Mistake Company Creative Worst Adults Capacity Originals Prepared Come Up Frightened Worst Things Be Creative Education System Being Wrong

Author:Ken Robinson

“The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.”

“Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.”

Source: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.”

“We lump together all things that are beyond the capacity of all of us collectively to understand-and one name we give to all those things together is God. Therefore, God is the creative force, the sustaining power, that which motivates toward constant change, the overall intelligence which governs the universe by physical and spiritual law, truth, love, goodness, kindness, beauty, the ever-present, all-pervading essence or spirit, which binds everything in the universe together and gives to everything in the universe.”

Giving Together Spiritual Law Spirit Universe Names Force Kindness Creative Goodness Capacity All Things Essence Constant Lumps Sustaining Truth Love

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.”

“You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.”

Giving Heart Creative Capacity Instant Giving And Receiving

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.”

Feels Stills Process Wonder Creative Essentials Capacity Creative Process

Author:Donald Woods Winnicott

“Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.”

Creative Capacity Perseverance Tension Allies Mastery Creative Tension

Author:Peter Senge

“I like working with great talent, in every capacity. I have a rule of thumb, in any creative endeavor - whether I'm doing music and playing in a band, or working with producers, or directing - where I generally like to work with people who are smarter than me or better than me.”

People Creative Talent Band Capacity Producers Endeavor Smarter Thumbs Great Talent

Author:Malik Yoba

“Every reality before your eyes was once imagined in the mind of one person. No matter who judges or knocks your dream, pay no attention to them. Instead, create what you imagine, and you will then be amazed at the Divine creative capacity you do have that will be well remembered for serving others.”

Mind Wells Persons Matter Dream Reality Eye Pay Attention Creative Imagine Divine Judging Capacity Remembered Your Dreams Serving Amazed Serving Others

Author:Barbara Rose

“My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basically we're all like characters in a play that consciousness is putting on to discover its own creative capacities.”

Play Character Belief Consciousness Creative Capacity Metaphysics Metaphysical Vedanta

Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.”

People Thinking Long Christian Felt Realizing Creative Capacity Average Righteousness Long Ago Civics Jewish Friends

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the world are now in everyone's hands, then the individuals now have the power that only governments and corporations used to have a couple of decades ago. I get excited by how that increases our capacity to be creative, and how that increases our capacity to create transformative things in the world.”

“To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.”

Needs Literature Vision Creative Achieve Capacity Lasting Comeback Factual

Book:Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

Source: Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

“All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.”

Ifs Humans Kind Next Energy Human Beings Levels Creative Successful Capacity More Money Next Level

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, our loves less ecstaticâ but this psychic numbing also impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more creative uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies.”

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”

Inspirational Play Use Order Creativity Creative Solitude Quiet Capacity Overcoming Introvert Constructive Being Alone Creative People Creative Person Quiet People Being Quiet Fear Of Being Alone

Author:Rollo May

“Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude. It develops latent talent, sharpens your capacity to reason, to act, and to find purpose in life. It dispels loneliness and heartache. It gives a renewal, a spark of enthusiasm, and zest for life.”

“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”

Needs Years Force Millions Creative Wall Capacity Sat Pens Brushes Bricks Harness Mortar Bricks And Mortar

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled.”

Firsts Children Stills Attitude Creative Seeing Conditions Capacity Sensitive Responding Puzzled

Author:Erich Fromm

“After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.”

“Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.”

Culture Challenges Creativity Creative Huge Capacity Select

Book:Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

Source: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

“Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.”

People Way Helping Creativity Creative Offers Capacity Release Helping People

Book:Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative

Source: Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative

“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.”

“In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.”

“If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.”

Ifs Today Past Creative Risk Offers Losing Capacity Yesterday Versions New Things Inferiors

Book:The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline

Source: The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline

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