Creative Quotes

Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
James Dyson

Children, Teach, Answer

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
James Dyson

Life, Music, Money

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.
Erykah Badu

Great, Beautiful, Help

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.
Kyle Chandler

Love, Enjoy, Free

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
Eric Bana

Writing, Whole, Started

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
Conrad Hall

Writing, Semester

As a kid I was creative.
Novak Djokovic

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
Ben Okri

Book, Writing, Themselves

There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.
Beth Ditto

Work, Hard, Thinking

Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.
Beth Ditto

Good, Found, Natural

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.
Beth Ditto

Love, Nothing, Together

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.
Marissa Mayer

Best, Technology, Find

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.
Lucy Powell

Focus, Means, Financial

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
Florence Welch

Creativity, Else, Worry

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
Rowan Atkinson

Put, Value, Values

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
Rowan Atkinson

Funny, Simple, Confidence

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Strength, Vision, Writer

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
Trey Parker

Funny, Whatever, Talking

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer

Work, Bad, Talk

I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
Gary Numan

Life, Coming, Keeps

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
Robert Rodriguez

Technology, Adopt, Slowest

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.
Brandy Norwood

Time, Important, Creativity

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
Katherine Dunham

Person, Him, Wanted

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
Sidney Sheldon

Live, Control, Find

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
Raymond Chandler

Nothing, Ego, Him

Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works.
Lea Michele

Amazing, Fun, Play

I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.
Tim Allen

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
Catie Curtis

Art, Yourself, Writing

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.
John H. Johnson

Succeed, Persistent

I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.
Donny Osmond

Mind, Night, Late

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