“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.” MenHas BeensEarthOrderGivenGrowsAnimalCreativityForeverTreeDyingBecomingWasteBirdRiversClimateDisappearBillionsForestsDestroyedLandscapeDryFewerCrashMarvelousShallowRuinedWildlifeDry Up Author:Anton Chekhov
“It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had given rise to me, the cosmos; and also, most dreadfully, as something incomparably greater than creativity, namely as the eternally achieved perfection of the absolute spirit. Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.” TwoSpiritGivenStarsCreativityCreativeSawsGreaterParticularAspectPerfectionAbsolutesMoodCosmosMakersBarren Author:Olaf Stapledon
“With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.” IfsFeelsLightGivenCreativitySunCreativeGraceMysteryUnexpectedDeserving Author:P. L. Travers
“I think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that and you add your own creativity and your own spin on things and you make it personal. That's what makes that character and that text unique to you, when you personalize it. I think that's where your job as an actor comes in.” ThinkingGivingCharacterJobsActorsGivenCreativityCircumstancesUniqueAddScripts Author:Matt Bomer
“What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.” GivenCreativityBirthSavedPregnancyThreadHungSuspended Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.” ThinkingWayNeedsWellsChildrenIdeasPlayFormGivenCreativityCreativeSuccessfulAdultsLikesPlentyBeing SuccessfulLeisureToysScope Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.” MindHumansHardMomentsArtistGivenProcessBrainCreativityCreativeTypeEssentialsBuiltEverydayImpulseCodeProgrammingUnexpectedHuman MindAssociationConnectingInventorReservedOperating Systems Book:Proust Was a Neuroscientist Source: Proust Was a Neuroscientist
“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.” IfsSaidIdeasCultureGivenWorkSituationCreativityInnovationVictimRepresentativesPeer Pressure Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?” HumansMayHas BeensUseGivenKnownCreativityDarknessDirectSexualityBeing HumanGreat HappinessConnectedness Author:Adrienne Rich
“Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.” IfsGivenCareersTeachCreativity Author:Jewel
“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth.But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work” IfsMindChildrenLittlesSeemsCultureGivenGrowsCreativityGreaterMaterialsTraditionEncouragementOur ChildrenEntertainmentCriticalInstruction Author:C. Sommerville
“Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product of human creativity in an environment of freedom. The freedom to own, to make contracts, to save, to invest, to associate, and to trade: these are the key to prosperity.” HumansGivenWealthCreativityEnvironmentProductsKeysRainTradeProsperityAccidentsContractsAssociates Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.” SufferingPassionGivenFunCreativityMedicineEaseDeathbedPsychiatric Author:Patch Adams
“Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.” IfsProblemHandsGivenCreativityManagementSolveManage Book:Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
“To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.” BeautifulUsedGivenCreativityClothesStandingBeautiful ThingsCastingReinsShowing UpStanding There Author:Erin Wasson
“Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.” WantLongArtistEnergyLeftGivenBehindsCreativityGrowingSourceDemandExpectationsLong AgoLeft Behind Author:Billy Corgan
“Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.” PeopleLongTodayIndividualGivenCreativityInstitutionsIdeologyInitiativeLong AgoGiven UpIndividual FreedomSociety Today Author:Dalai Lama
“The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.” PeopleUseIndividualGivenMoralCreativityCasesEconomyOur LivesProduceInitiativeFree Economy Author:Paul Ryan
“Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.” HumansProblemGivenChallengesPovertyCreativityDiseaseEnvironmentalExtraordinaryMeaningfulCapabilityTranslateTechnologicalUnemploymentUnlimitedDegradationUnprecedentedEnvironmental Degradation Author:Muhammad Yunus