Best creative & may Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.”

People Thinking World Needs Mind May Ideas Creativity Creative Gratitude Drug Claims Sells Add Wander Experts Be Creative Great Idea

Author:Hal Elrod

“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.”

“It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???”

“While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.”

May Mistake Creative Be Creative Breakthrough Drivel

Author:John Cleese

“Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.”

People May Facts Used Term Creative Divine Anxiety Madness Paid Greek Insecurity Sensitivity Distinguished Creative People High Prices

Author:Rollo May

“If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.”

Ifs Mind Wells May Play Form Used Results Creative Stupid Surprise Vehicle Discovering Conventional Pedantic

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.”

Feels May Ideas Feelings Term Natural Creative Health Separation Nevertheless Alienation Terrific Creative Work

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative.”

People Giving Trying May Doe Differences Views Creative Position Produce Keys Ordinary Arguing Favors Dialogue Compromise Discussion Fixed Convince Latter Agreement

Author:David

“The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.”

Knows May Matter Stories Spirit Born Creativity Destiny Creative Genius Urges Our Destiny Your Destiny

Book:Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

“The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.”

May Home Creative Genius Logic Primitive Naive Symbolism Knowledgeable Creative Genius

Author:Frank X. Barron

“Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.”

“I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.”

May Use Results Creative Influence Creating Theme Celtic Springboards

Author:Loreena McKennitt

“The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.”

“You can have what you want- if you know how to form the mold for it in your own thoughts. There is no dream that may not come true, if you but learn to use the Creative Force working through you. The methods that work for one will work for all. The key to power lies in using what you have...freely, fully and thus opening wide your channels for more creative force to flow through you.”

Ifs Knows Want May Use Dream Form Lying Force Know How Creative Keys Flow Method Wide What You Want Opening Mold

Author:Robert Collier

“But there is always creative destruction in markets: there are always new winners taking the place of those that are. So if you only look at the market's surface, it may appear flat, but there's always huge turbulence taking place within.”

Ifs Looks May Creative Huge Destruction Surface Winner Flats Turbulence Creative Destruction

Author:Kerr Neilson

“a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.”

May Whole Reality Beautiful Heaven Imagination Pleasure Secret Existence Creative Wind Shapes Letters Clouds Destroyed Regions Arrivals Pleasures Of Life

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.”

May Art Creative Wonderful Cooking Hobbies Creative Art

Author:Julia Child

“The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.”

Thinking Knows May Sometimes Might Courses Individual Emotion Creative Bird Flight Interfere Sentimental Creative Power Migratory Birds

Book:Survival

Source: Survival

“An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.”

May Art Self Moments Lying Artist Healing Creative Expression Periods Solitude Encounters Me Alone Self Expression Alone Time Upkeep Recharging

Author:Julia Cameron

“There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.”

Way Giving Wells May Spirit Creative Creative Spirit

Author:Mary Caroline Richards

“... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.”

Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

“Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.”

Thinking May Creativity Creative Violence Hypocrisy Over You

Book:Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.”

Thinking Want Should Kind May Made Creative Return Investment Financial Pursue Financial Investment

Author:Meg Cabot

“No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what the uniqueness of the artist is all about. The transcendent right of the artist is the right to create even though he may not always know what he is doing.”

Knows May Has Beens Able Artist Process Creative Instant Creative Process Uniqueness Splendid Transcendent Precarious

Author:Norman Cousins

“The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.”

People Ifs Feels Should May Grows Creative Growing Up Fine Truth Is Skills Terrorist Smoke Bored Fund Pot Marijuana Be Creative Being Bored New Skills

Author:Trey Parker

“The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.”

Ifs May Artist Culture Creative Smart Doctors Scientist Profession Brilliant Lawyer Medical Saved Labs Creative Art Creative Artists Medical Doctor

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.”

Needs May Children Doe Art Poetry Sex Creativity Creative Poet Baby Labor Metaphor Motherhood Pregnancy Fulfilling Privileged Sailing Slurs Yeats Byzantium

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.”

May Art Ends Practice Creative Function Chiefs Persistent

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.”

May Helping Feelings Ability Creativity Creative Expression Access Frustration Desperation Eloquence Dissatisfaction Creative Expression

Book:Trust the Process

Source: Trust the Process

“Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.”

“I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.”

Feels Looks May Sometimes Kids Creative Teacher Ready Vulnerable

Author:Jan Brett

“Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.”

Men Believe May Long Grows Realizing Creative Conditions Masters Circumstances Creatures Seeds Command Soil Creative Power A Man Thinketh

Book:As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives

Source: As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives

“When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.”

“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.”

Ifs Way Writing May Done Pain Creative Driven Driving Nuts Arrangements Creative Work

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical quality called vibrato. This pulsation that wells up within the sounded note can lead us to what is most spontaneous and creative in human life, and possibly even to deeper mysteries--to powers of knowing and doing which we have lost or given away during the epoch of civilization, and which perhaps we may now regain.”

World Humans Wells May Lost Given Quality Creative Knowing Mystery Civilization Notes Musical Deeper Human Life Exploration Spontaneous Fitting Epoch Knowing And Doing

Author:George Leonard

“Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others.”

Writing May Matter Seems Creative Peculiar Engines Tactics

Author:Ralph Keyes

“If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth.”

Ifs May Growth Creative Risk Patterns Intuition Stuck Permanent Finding Yourself Persist

Book:The New Creative Artist

Source: The New Creative Artist

“The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.”

“Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.”

Thinking May Self Creative Alive Failing Succeed Protect Impulse Barriers Authentic Self Burying Protecting Ourselves

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“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.”

“You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.”

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness

“Fear kills, want to kill. Fear is destructive. Love is creative energy. When you love you would like to create - you may like to sing a song, paint, write poetry, but you would not take a bayonet or an atom bomb and go rushing off madly to kill people who are absolutely unknown to you, who have done nothing, who are as unknown to you as you are to them.”

People Want Writing May Done Song Energy Love Is Creative Love You Paint Bombs Destructive Atoms Rushing Creative Energy Atom Bomb Bayonets

Author:Rajneesh

“I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in order for a poem to feel authentic, I have to feel I'm treading on very dangerous ground, which can mean that the resulting revelations may prove hurtful to other people. The time for thinking about that kind of guilt or any collective sense of responsibility, however, occurs much later in the creative process, after the poem is finished.”

“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.”

Knows Wells May Feelings Artist Creative Cease Height Subtle Scent Fullness Subtlety

Book:Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future

Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future

“When you are not separate from the creative process, time ceases to exist. You might start to feel tired and suddenly realize that much time has passed. It isn't necessarily a happy time - and may be very difficult to start if it is a job or an obligation. But if' you start with all the concrete needs and proceed in a thorough way - the creative process will take over and you will forget whether it is work or play. Working in the here and now is one of the most uncontaminated ways to work.”

Ifs Way Needs Feels May Play Might Jobs Process Difficult Realizing Forget Creative Tired Cease Obligation Concrete Creative Process Here And Now Thorough Happy Times

Book:Learning by Heart

Source: Learning by Heart

“Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.”

Trying May Fantasy Creative Bird Locked Cages Fly Away

Book:Tales from the Perilous Realm

Source: Tales from the Perilous Realm

“The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.”

May Ideas Character Would Be Action Process Creative Right Now Evolve Creative Process Animated Action Movie

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.”

May Ideas Next Process Sound Creative One Day Solutions Exciting No Idea Remarkable Creative Process Next Day Naive

Author:Jonathan Ive

“Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.”

People Firsts May Mean Ideas Hands Creative Reasonable Unusual Be Creative

Author:Howard Gardner

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