“The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.” UseIndividualTeachCreativeCrazyAmountHealthyAmbitionNegativeMadEndlessManageInsanityOppositionFeedbackScrutinyDisheartenedNegative Feedback Author:Criss Jami
“If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.” IfsWantKindI CanDifferentFilmCreativeAmountSatisfactionRidiculousCinemaDifferent Kinds Author:Karisma Kapoor
“all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.” IfsWorldNeedsShouldPersonsCertainCreativeAmountCreatingCriticismCriticizeShut UpCreating SomethingCreative Writers Author:Gena Rowlands
“It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.” NeedsPersonsEnergyEconomyCreativePossibilityPersonalityAmountResponseEnormousVarietyDenialTraitsRichnessCreative EnergyDepriving Book:Advice from a Failure Source: Advice from a Failure
“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.” PeopleMindHumansValuesEnergySpaceBrainCreativeTalentDependsAmountDemandSmartCommitmentIncreaseAvailableProportionEnterpriseHuman MindScareCreative PeopleSmart PeopleComputingTime And EnergyVery SmartBrain Power Author:Steven Weber
“A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.” PeopleThinkingDoneStuffPowerfulTalkingCreativeInformationHugeAmountEverydayArguingRecalls Author:Clive Thompson
“It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a time in your life where you have an enormous amount of creative energy, and there's no way to express it. That's why a lot of people get into drinking or drugs or whatever.” PeopleWayEnergyCreativeAmountDrugDirectorsDrinkingEnormousRejectedFrustratingCreative Energy Author:Matt Damon
“I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.” EnergyCreativeHugeAmount Author:Scott Cohen
“Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.” WantLittlesCertainEnergyFeltCreativeAmountComfortableWhat You WantExcitementBe CreativeConstraintsStressful Author:Sofia Coppola
“I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.” ThinkingWayWritingPersonsBookEndsCertainBornCreativeTeacherAmountI've LearnedFavouriteCreative WritingBest TeacherFavourite Book Author:Markus Zusak
“If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.” IfsWayNeedsPersonsCertainCreativeStyleAmountObstaclesSpiteSense Of HumorStubbornnessCreative Person Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.” CreativeFashionDesignIndustryAmountOffersFingersEnormousRhythmPulseFashion IndustryIndustrial DesignCreative Industries Author:Marc Newson