“Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.” KnowsI CanImportantHelpingUseLightAbleRoomsCreativityMysteryTalentJudgmentRemainsImportant ThingsElectricityCathedralsLight UpHarnessPlugsSave A LifeSynagogueOperating Room Author:Maya Angelou
“Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.” IfsFeelsMindLittlesIdeasRoomsEnemyCreativityCreativeBedCreatingFilledSelfishBitterInstanceNegativityCreating SomethingCreative Ideas Author:David Lynch
“I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.” EnergyRoomsCreativityRehearsal Author:Laurie Metcalf
“The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.” MenBookSeemsImaginationWhiteRoomsCreativityCreationAdventureNeededSafeMoodEnormousHeatComplexityProseRecklessFluidFuseSeething Author:John Dos Passos
“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
“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
“It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.” PeopleIfsWayWantIdeasTogetherFightingRoomsCreativityCreativeFiveImpossibleSixSevenBe Creative Author:Adam Duritz
“A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.” ThinkingWantMindRealArtistStrongRoomsCreativityLeavingBitter Author:David Lynch
“As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.” ThinkingWritingTwoStoriesCertainPassionActorsAbilityRoomsCreativityNovelAmountSkillsShort StoryStamina Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.” IfsThinkingWayLongStillsWholeLightDifferencesDarkRoomsSecretMistakeCreativityShiningGreat ChangeDark RoomTeachable Author:Vernon Howard
“The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.” IfsTwoHelpingUseHeavenImaginationSimpleSpaceRoomsCreativityDoorsExerciseHundredExcitingStrangerTinyInchesAmazedToiletsStretchingTime FliesHow Time Flies Book:Choke: A Novel Source: Choke: A Novel
“No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut.” HumansIdeasScienceWalksRoomsNumbersHalfCreativityCreativeCuttingRocksFieldsArgumentLonelyNotionBoundsMythologyBarsShipsObservationChainsFancyExpensiveInteractionDesksCharmingEquipmentLaboratoryGeologyCreative WorkSynthesisGeologistUnbiasedCalculators Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.” RoomsPowerfulCreativitySolitudeBeing AloneSeclusionInspiring Writing Author:Salman Rushdie