“If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos -and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity.” PeopleIfsHumansDifferentLightTogetherIndividualWhiteCreativityCreativePossibilityColorEqualShadowChaosExtremesRangeComplexityParadoxIntensityMultitudesOne WordCreative PeopleInconsistencyColor White Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters” WorldWayWellsDoeDifferentDifferencesCreativityCreativeOur LivesEqualFunctionMereToleranceDenialFundSparksNew WaysAdvocatingCharterSustenanceTolerationDialecticsPolarity Author:Audre Lorde
“To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.” IfsMadeDifferentRealPlayActionDesireArtistAsksDecisionLevelsResultsCreativityVirtuePlayerComputerScientistPressureConstantChessOpponentsStreamsGlimpseHigh LevelUnder PressureSynthesisChess PlayersDecisions MadeGood Decision Book:How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
“I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.” ThinkingWantLongDifferentRunningArtistCreativityFitMusicianThriveCategoriesPerformersLong RunsVaryEntertainersVocalist Author:Christina Aguilera
“There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.” GivingArtImportantDifferentSometimesKidsSchoolSpaceCreativityCreativeTalentTypeTraditionalPlatforms Author:Caity Lotz
“An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express myself in a very definite style but by means of all kinds of materials and formats. I wish to discover how my own creativity unfolds under different circumstances... Naples is a dilemma that fatally elicits an oneiric interpretation and I love it and feel grateful because it has nurtured my fantasy.” MenFeelsKindMeanDifferentSelfMotherWishMy OwnCreativityFantasyStyleMaterialsCircumstancesGratefulDeeperAll KindsCompanionInterpretationDefiniteDilemmaFormatNaples Author:Augusto De Luca
“I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. Now I am convinced that in any creativity there exists this element of revolt.” DifferentOrderCreativityElementsUnderstoodConvincedRevolt Author:Leonor Fini
“The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.” MindKindPersonsDifferentArtistLinesAbilityBrainCreativityCreativeDesignMarkFaultsThinkerDifferent KindsStorytellerInventorHolisticGet Ahead Author:Daniel H. Pink
“But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever has tobring about a discovery or deed which will further the cause of all of humanity, no longer has his home in his native land but rather in his work.” PersonsDifferentHomeLawHumanityCausesCreativityCreativeLandSubjectsHigherDiscoveryMereDeedsNativeCreative PersonNative LandHigher Law Author:Stefan Zweig
“I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.” WayYearsDifferentSchoolJobsArtistPassionCreativityBrotherGrewMomCoupleGrew UpMovedMy MomBackgroundsMy BrotherVisualsHippieBeing An Artist Author:Jared Leto
“Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.” KnowsWantMeanTwoDifferentWisdomAmericaPastReadingAsksSpeakVoiceKnowledgeCreativityHistoryCitizensAskingOriginalsQuittingHistorianMonarchy Author:Daniel J. Boorstin
“You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought. If there are changes you would like to make, it will be of great value to begin telling a different story - not only about your body, but about all subjects that have been troubling to you. As you begin to positively focus, getting to feel so good about so many subjects, you will begin to feel the power that creates worlds flowing through you.” IfsWorldFeelsHas BeensDifferentStoriesBodyValuesCreativityFocusSubjectsYour BodyPositivelyGreat Value Author:Esther Hicks
“The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.” WayNeedsFeelsHeartArtDifferentArtistSilenceCreativityExpressionQuietAmbitionWorkersCreatorCreditObserversQuiet Heart Book:Passionate Presence Source: Passionate Presence
“I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.” ThinkingYearsDifferentProblemSeemsFormProcessCreativityCreativeJazzSolveMathEncountersUnconsciousRemarkableDozenCreative ProcessPonderingImprovisingMath Problems Author:Oliver Sacks
“My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.” WayDifferentCreativityFineMy FamilyDifferent WaysIsolated Author:Demetri Martin
“Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.” YearsKindLittlesDifferentFactsTodaySongActorsDifferencesRoomsEmotionCreativityGoneRecordsSourceInvolvedDramaIntelligentSingersPretendingYears Gone By Author:Bob Dylan
“Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop and are concentrated, others die or change their location. Thus new social problems are created: professional or regional unemployment, redeployment and mobility of persons, permanent adaptation of workers and disparity of conditions in the different branches of industry.” GivingPersonsDifferentProblemCertainDiesSocialCreativityConditionsIndustryResearchTransformationWorkersProofPermanentBranchesEnterpriseConsumerismTechnologicalLocationUnemploymentAdaptationOverconsumptionMobilityIncessantDisparitySocial ProblemsIndustrialization Author:Pope Paul VI
“I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.” IfsBelieveMayDifferentPlayFeelingsSoundCreativityExpressionTypePicksInstrumentsBlockWriter's Block Author:Saul Williams
“Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.” DifferentUseSpeakLanguageSituationCreativityCommunicationDegreesInfiniteVarietyPhrasesCoinsFinite Author:David Lodge
“You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.” KnowsWayLittlesStillsDifferentSchoolCitiesCreativityMusicianQueensDifferent WaysJerseyBrooklynManhattan Author:Chick Corea
“In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry activism driven by rage, however justified it seems, is really not going to work. I believe that the tangled hierarchy wants us to move to the next state of evolution and very strongly desires us to take that quantum leap of creativity.” WantBelieveDifferentStatesSeemsFacesMovingDesireNextI BelieveCreativityDivineEvolutionAngrySacredSaintDrivenActivismRageCollectivesSinnerLeapVery StrongQuantumJustifiedGoing To WorkWant UHierarchyBeing ThereTangledProfaneDiabolicalQuantum LeapDifferent Faces Author:Deepak Chopra
“As a designer, you always take facets of different people and you mix them together with your own thoughts and information and creativity and passion.” PeopleDifferentTogetherPassionCreativityInformationDesignerDifferent PeoplesFacets Author:Nicki Minaj
“Producing and deejaying are two different outlets to the same creativity. When I'm in the studio I get to create and go through my process. When I'm on stage I get to share the results of that process with everybody. It's two different experiences but they both go back to the same thing and I love them both.” TwoDifferentProcessResultsCreativityShareStageStudiosOutletsDifferent Experiences Author:Justin Smith
“Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.” IfsWayTwoDifferentHelpingAsksCreativityFieldsFootballSkillsNervousAsk MePianoImprovisationPlaying Piano Author:Joey Harrington
“Each environment is different, each job is different, and each realm of creativity that they give you is different. You try to do the best you can and put as much time into it as you can, but different jobs have different circumstances come about.” GivingTryingDifferentJobsCreativityEnvironmentCircumstancesRealmsDo The BestDifferent Jobs Author:Michael Rapaport
“There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.” PeopleDifferentJobsLeaderCreativityIntegrityUniqueBetter Future Author:Marcus Buckingham
“Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.” WantDifferentShowsFilmRoomsCreativityFiveTelevisionTvsSceneEssenceSevenEightZeroTv ShowsTime And MoneyFilm And Television Author:Shailene Woodley
“However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.” WayMayDifferentSpiritCreativityPossibilityExpressionGenerosityDifferent WaysGenerosity Of Spirit Author:Arjuna Ardagh
“I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.” WayDifferentFormCreativityCuttingPaintingFindingsPhotographyExcitedVideoLayersNew WaysEditingImmediacyCollages Author:Mickalene Thomas
“Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.” DoeDifferentCreativityCuttingRiversStreamsDestination Author:Grace Cavalieri
“Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.” DifferentWould BeFightingPerfectCreativityRightsEconomicAreasDeterminationImportanceCrisisBillsFinanceChairsHostWomens RightsCommitteesTenacityEconomic Crisis Author:Eleanor Smeal
“Doing something different, doing something original is always fun because there is a lot of creativity that comes with it.” DifferentFunCreativityOriginals Author:Asa Butterfield
“I would argue that the management of creativity requires a skill set that's relatively different from the traditional management skill set that is appropriate to a large, complex, industrial-era organization.” DifferentCreativitySkillsOrganizationManagementComplexesArguingTraditionalErasAppropriateManagement Skills Author:John Kao
“When you come into a creativity-driven environment, things are very different and there is the danger that a traditional managerial mind-set could even do damage. That is because managing creative teams and people is very different from managing the factory worker/foreman relationship.” PeopleMindDifferentCreativityCreativeEnvironmentTeamDangerWorkersDrivenTraditionalDamageFactoriesMind SetFactory WorkersCreative Team Author:John Kao
“I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract entities such as Buddhism. To me, anyway, the entity in my life that conflicts with my creativity is Buddhism.” PeopleMeanDifferentCreativityBuddhismConflictComplexesAbstractDifferent ThingsEntityDifferent PeoplesDifferent Relationships Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Meditation has been a big change for me in a super-positive way. I see the result and strength and clarity - even my creativity is different and more connected. It might be 10 minutes a day; it might be 20 minutes a day. But every day in this crazy world, it's a sense of peace and purpose.” WorldWayHas BeensDifferentBigsMightPurposeResultsCreativityMeditationCrazyMinutesConnectedClarityBig ChangesCrazy WorldThis Crazy World Author:Alicia Keys
“As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of writing; I think that's the word I'm looking for, rhythms of creativity which then, of course, become very intense. I think your writing then tends to be very intensified simply because there are other demands which seem equally important.” ThinkingWritingImportantDifferentSeemsPoliticalCoursesCreativityActivityDemandIntenseRhythm Author:Wole Soyinka
“There is an interesting and new way to be excited about the fashion world today maybe. The traditional path of fashion as simple magazine images has dissolved - we are seeing new and innovative ways to share, create, and enjoy ideas. I am challenged to learn and explore paths of finding new photographers, stylists, and vision-makers online or through direct contact, connecting with ideas and creativity in new ways, and making images with different outlets. Sometimes more unbridled avenues and unconventional ways lead to things I wouldn't have thought of yet.” WorldWayIdeasDifferentSometimesTodayEnjoySimpleInterestingVisionCreativityPathSeeingShareFashionFindingsDirectPhotographerExcitedTraditionalContactMagazinesOnlineMakersNew WaysConnectingInnovativeOutletsAvenuesWorld TodayStylistUnconventionalIdeas And CreativityFashion World Author:Guinevere Van Seenus
“I think you have to be able to connect with your own creativity, your own vision, and then make it strong together. The experience is very different in private or in public. But I guess making things is such a big part of our reality.” ThinkingDifferentRealityTogetherStrongVisionCreativity Author:Robin Standefer
“For you to be able to rap fast and fit many words into a bar, that's what rap is about, the showmanship. That's the thing we're kind of losing now. I'm not saying that the music now is horrible. I mean, I don't listen to it. The showmanship and creativity in rap is what made it special and what made it different.” KindMeanDifferentCreativitySpecialFitLosingRapHorrible Author:Cakes da killa
“Henry Corbin creates the world - most of all his examination of the imagination and what the imagination was for him. Some philosophers would think of the imagination as a synthetic ability, how you put different things together. Artists more think of the imagination as creativity. So I really like the way that he presents the imagination as a faculty that allows one to experience worlds that are not exactly physical but are real nonetheless.” ThinkingWorldDifferentRealTogetherArtistImaginationAbilityCreativityPhilosopher Author:Ben Chasny
“Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle. I've seen a lot of those articles and I thought they were unreasonable when I was in school, but they're getting a little bit out of hand now. We should embrace what makes us different, our different styles, our creativity.” DifferentReasonSchoolCreativityStyleProtectEmbrace Author:Chantelle Brown-Young
“We should embrace what makes us different, our different styles, our creativity. You should wear whatever seems true to you. If that means wearing a tux, if that means wearing a short dress, a floor-length dress, or whatever the case is - do what feels right to you. Try not to get in trouble though!” TryingMeanDifferentCreativityTroubleStyleEmbrace Author:Chantelle Brown-Young
“Socialism, communism, literally kills the lifeblood of opportunity and energy and creativity because there is no outlet for it, and yet all of those things are a natural part of the human existence, desire, ambition, energy, creation. We all have those things in different amounts, different allocations. And they change.” DifferentDesireOpportunityEnergyNaturalExistenceCreativityCreationAmbitionSocialismCommunismHuman Existence Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I always have admired what Bill Cunningham does, his body of work. I think it's a really important, seminal body of work. I think Bill celebrates creativity and self-expression. So it's really a lot of different kind of threads, all through the lens of Bill Cunningham.” ThinkingKindImportantDifferentCreativityCelebrateDifferent Kinds Author:Richard Press
“I need to find avenues to express all of my creativity. There's always polarizing forces. Sometimes I feel like my work is going in different directions, but hopefully it's just expanding. And I think as much as possible to just let ourselves be in all the various aspects. I feel more inspired by people who just will let themselves be as creators, and I don't think it has to be contradictory.” PeopleThinkingDifferentSometimesCreativityInspiredVariousHopefullyContradictory Author:Becky Stark
“Black Nativity certainly lends itself to reinterpretation. It was kind of designed to be infused with the creativity of whoever is putting it on, and every performance is a little bit different. So, this is definitely my version of Black Nativity. It has its own story, which is a family story. Langston Hughes' Black Nativity informs it, and is contained within it.” KindDifferentBlackCreativity Author:Kasi Lemmons
“Everyone is creative, but me and my colleagues are using a different definition of creativity than is implied when people say they are not creative. We believe that people are being creative if they are bringing out their highest inner resources to improve their lives and those around them. Those who are living from their core, and doing what they are destined to do, are being creative, no matter how mundane their work or profession might seem.” PeopleBelieveDifferentCreativityCreativeProfessionBe CreativeMundane Author:Michael Ray
“Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early '80s hip hop, it was so much creativity goin' on with artists like then, like Slick Rick, then you had Rakim, and you had these different kind of artists back then. And we was a marble cake of all these artists. So I didn't have a problem with writin' stories because I felt like that was somethin' I loved to do. Even to this day, I really consider myself an entertainer-slash-narrator. I like to talk about stuff that goes on.” ThinkingKindDifferentProblemArtistCreativityHip HopThis DayDifferent KindsMarbleSlick Author:Raekwon