“People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows.” PeopleKnowsWritingIdeasLife IsNamesGrowsCan DoDarkDestinyCreativeClearCuttingGoes OnGuitarBe CreativeOur DestinyYour DestinyRubbishWriting PoetryFlutes Author:Rajneesh
“We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but does the sound connect internally, do they touch people's hearts, how creative are they.... ?” PeopleKnowsHeartDoePlayTodaySoundCreativePerfectionInstrumentsUp And Down Author:David Finckel
“A lot of what I know as a filmmaker is because of hockey. That's teamwork, and being able to collaborate with people, and be creative with them, and get the most out of everybody. Everyone's got different talents, and you've got to bring out the best of everybody, and use your strengths and work together, and try and evolve it rather than do what was done before you, and to push into new areas.” PeopleKnowsTryingDifferentDoneUseAbleTogetherCreativeTalentAreasEvolveFilmmakerWorking TogetherTeamworkHockeyBe Creative Author:Gabe Polsky
“The Healthiest Response to life is Laughter.There is always a reason to be grateful.You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's nothing to be afraid of. You are Safe.Your soul cherishes every aspect of your life.There is a Plan, and your soul knows what it is.Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural.There is a creative solution to every problem. Every possibility holds the promise of abundance.Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.Evolution leads the way through desire.Freedom is Letting Go.” KnowsWaySoulReasonProblemLife IsSpiritDesireUniverseOpportunityEnergyNaturalCreativePlansPossibilityEvolutionPromiseSafeLetting GoSolutionsLaughterAspectFlowGratefulResponseObstaclesYour SoulAbundanceCherishEcstasySchemesDisguiseBe GratefulCreative Solutions Author:Deepak Chopra
“I'm smart enough to know when I've done something wrong, but I don't understand this. Guys are beating their wives, getting DUIs and doing drugs, and I get national attention for a Sharpie? People are personally attacking me, calling me a classless asshole because I did something creative during a game. Why?” PeopleKnowsDoneEnoughGuyGamesAttentionCreativeWifeCallingDrugSmartThis GuyAttackingDui Author:Terrell Owens
“It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.” KnowsCharacterStoriesCreativeAdviceFieldsVery True Author:John Lloyd Young
“Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.” KnowsWellsMayFeelingsArtistCreativeCeaseHeightSubtleScentFullnessSubtlety Book:Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future
“I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.” PeopleKnowsWayHelpingActorsMy OwnCreativeBabyPerformancesBest WayCreative PeopleBest Performance Author:Ricky Schroder
“What's great is that a lot of us are playing so against type in this, and it's awesome. All of the writers put faith in the fact that we know what we're doing. We have creative freedom, and it's awesome. I think it all worked out. Everybody on the show is so good.” ThinkingKnowsFactsShowsCreativeTypeCreative Freedom Author:Laura Prepon
“...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own. The way an idea builds as it careens back and forth between good writers is so unpredictable. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that's why I don't think there's any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. You never know where it might lead.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayIdeasSometimesMightProcessMistakeCreativeDependsCreative ProcessUnpredictableMisunderstandingBack And ForthGood Writers Author:John Cleese
“Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!” PeopleIfsKnowsArtSaidRealFeelingsArtistCareersCreativePaintingPaintSakeEstablishmentCanvasThey SaidSentimentalInnovativeBourgeoisHideousGrotesqueCreative WorkBrandedIllustratorsReal ArtistsPainting A Picture Author:Bill Bonner
“In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.” PeopleKnowsOrderKnow HowCreativeEnvironmentSettingSettingsPreparationRitualBe CreativeLinkedCreative People Author:Twyla Tharp
“If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingTogetherCoursesCommunityTechnologyCreativeDogDesignBuildingLike YouInternetMachinesBasesDeeperDrivenCodeFreakCapitalistThrust Author:Terence McKenna
“Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.” PeopleKnowsWorldHas BeensTwoOrderAbilityResponsibilityCreativeTypeLikesEstablishmentNo Confidence Author:Yoko Ono
“We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.” PeopleKnowsWantStillsPastCertainStarsLevelsCreativityCreativeRocksIncentivesRock StarCreative People Author:Bill Gates
“How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.” KnowsLooksForgetAudienceCreativeBunchSketchbooks Author:Demetri Martin
“I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?” KnowsCreativePhotographerDo You KnowDivides Author:Imogen Cunningham
“Assuming that all bad girls smoke. I don't think so. I've been around a lot of bad girls who don't smoke, you know, so I think it's easy to put a cigarette into, you know, into anyone's hands and say, well that makes them a bad boy or a bad girl. There are many more creative ways from a writerly point of view to do that.” ThinkingKnowsWayWellsHandsGirlEasyViewsBoysCreativeAssumingPoint Of ViewSmokeCigaretteBad BoyBad Girl Author:Joe Eszterhas
“When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.” KnowsShowsProcessResultsCreativeMinutesFashionMonthsSixRedLaborSevenShadeInchesCreative ProcessSix MonthsTediousFashion Show Author:Marc Jacobs
“What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.” KnowsWantGivingTryingPlayInterestingCreativeProduceMusicianAtmosphere Author:Herbie Mann
“I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.” KnowsKindBigsKidsTermCreativeFireNiceTypeQuietMouthsSettingSettingsGoing Out Author:Iggy Pop
“I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.” KnowsWayArtistCreativityCreativeSophisticatedCreative Artists Author:Mick Jagger
“Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.” KnowsShouldTodayCreativeNegativeDestructiveOur WordsContainersDestructive Power Author:Joyce Meyer
“I'm a very creative person, and you know when I hooked up with Benny Boom, I said I want it to be a different kind of video. I want it to be crisp, and I want it to relate, [and] not to be so far over people's heads. And that's when we came up with the p-t-d-d-d-d-d (camera flashes.) You know with the picture changing, and that's it.” PeopleKnowsWantKindPersonsSaidDifferentCreativeCamerasVideoRelateDifferent KindsFlashHookedCreative PersonCrisps Author:Swizz Beatz
“But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.” PeopleThinkingKnowsCreativeTakenDrugCreative People Author:John Frusciante
“There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.” KnowsMovingImaginationSecretKnow HowCreativePathDoorsApproachCuriosityOpeningMoving ForwardCuriousNew ThingsExploringKeep MovingKeep Moving ForwardOpening UpNew Paths Author:Walt Disney
“God is constantly creating anew. And God also, invites us to be re-created and join the work of God as co-(re)creators. . . . Imagine the Kingdom of God as the creative process of God reengaging in all that we know and experience. . . . When we employ creativity to make this world better, we participate with God in the recreation of the world.” KnowsWorldProcessCreativityCreativeImagineThis WorldCreatingCreatorKingdomsInvitesCreative ProcessKingdom Of GodRecreation Author:Doug Pagitt
“It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.” KnowsFeelsFirstsStatesFeelingsHandsLeftSoundVoiceCreativeRecordsCarBuildingHappeningsFirst TimeDown AndGuitarThings HappenPianoChords Author:Beth Nielsen Chapman
“We really had the whole piece laid out in like a Word file, just from beginning to end. It was kind of more like your creative-writing class in school. You know, you have the outline and then you just kind of plug the stuff in the little map you've made.” KnowsWritingKindLittlesMadeEndsWholeSchoolStuffClassCreativePiecesLike YouMapsCreative WritingFilesOutlinesPlugsClasses In School Author:Crowder
“To me, music and songwriting is... part of the intriguing thing is the creative process; you know, the creative thought process. Relying on that... there is some sort of inspiration there and you can't always put your finger on where it comes from. So, it's always been important for me to have my own thing and, even though I'm inspired by and influenced by many different musicians and styles of music, I was very determined early on to have my own thing. So when I sit down to write I don't necessarily have a particular narrative or message in mind. I'm interested in language and in words.” KnowsWritingMindImportantDifferentInspirationLanguageProcessMy OwnCreativeStyleParticularMessagesMusicianFingersInspiredDeterminedNarrativeSongwritingCreative ProcessIntriguingThought ProcessCreative Thought Author:Page Hamilton
“You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life - unless you're motivated to do it yourself - there's so many stories that you miss.” KnowsWritingPersonsStoriesForceCreativeHonestMissingMagazinesMotivatedStraightforwardDeadlineAmerican LifeCreative PersonDo It YourselfTrue Things Author:John Hodgman