I enjoy the creative process, but I like that it doesn’t define who I am.

I like to be creative.

To create is to be alive.

To be creative is to allow yourself to be vulnerable.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

The act of creating is the act of giving.

You don’t have to be an artist to be creative.

Love is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

The goal of a business is to create value for others. Profit is just a measure of how well we are doing that.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

You have to create your own opportunities.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Every action creates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind.

Don’t wait for opportunities, create them.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I’m going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

I don’t need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.

You have the power to create your own destiny.

Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.

Creating a memorable film involves a combination of creativity, passion, and technical skill.

The process of making a film is a journey of creativity, collaboration, and discovery.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

Stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that doesn’t mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don’t save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box

From a creative standpoint, I’m interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.

I felt I could become a performer who stood out, who challenged the way things were done and make it more creative and also encourage men and women to not be afraid of their sexuality.

I admire Russell Simmons. He is a successful dude that has done a little bit of everything. He keeps it moving, and he’s still doing things. Larry David is also amazing. He is honest and blunt. A creative genius.

I’d want to start being a creative director of a specific line, like Adidas, for example. If they called me up to collaborate on something, I would do it.

In TV writing, Armando Iannucci’s satire ‘The Thick of It’ is brilliant – equal parts hysterically funny, terrifyingly believable, and Oh-my-God-I-can’t-believe-he-actually-said-that – and it’s got the most satisfyingly creative insults ever.

As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.

“I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I’m trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.”

I’m very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous – when you get it. Most of the time, though, I’m filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work – this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can’t be found. Instead, it’s just one interruption after another.

Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band’s creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse

Yes, money is important. But it’s all about the creative process.

I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

I feel like everyone here is so creative. They think up a project, and the next thing you know, they’re doing it.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

You know, I’m a creative genius and there’s no other way to word it.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I approach creativity like a sport, where if I have a drawing I react just like a jock: LOOK AT THE FUCKING DRAWING RIGHT THERE YEAH! We’re all creatives here, we’re all born artists.

You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can’t really fuel your creative existence any longer because it’s not stable, however amazing and exciting it may be.

I keep a creative group around me

Technology is technology and then art form and people’s creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything – great! Technology for technology sake doesn’t mean much to me anyway.

In order to be truly creative, you have to be willing to take risks and step out of your comfort zone.

Man’s relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man’s relation to the cosmos–to the unknown–which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don’t necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It’s not the best choice for creative writing.

I’m not a fashionista – I adore creative and original people with their own style.

No two beings, and no two situations, are really commensurable with each other. To become aware of this fact is to undergo a sort of crisis. But it is with this crisis in our moral awareness as a starting-point, that there becomes possible that cry from us towards the creative principle, and that demand by it on us, which each must answer in his own way.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort

You’re always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

There’s something fun about the road because there’s no 9 to 5. But I do find myself making the effort to take some time off. As much as I don’t want to, I have to. I need to reset. I love weeks off, because I can go in the studio and just be creative again.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative or they are crazy.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.

I hold no emotions while I am in there… in there it is just calm and creative.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation, is that good for the world?

You can’t be creative when you’re completely happy.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

I always wanna be able to fight. I always wanna be able to go left when they tell me to go right, not because I’m being hard-headed, it’s just me taking a creative stance. I have no problem with constructive criticism, but, at the same time, I have a problem with doin’ the same thing that everybody’s doin’. And that’s the way I’ve found a way to survive in the music game.

I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we’ve barely scratched the surface of what it can do.

I’m just a very creative and outgoing person and I love being around people and being around music. It just gives me energy.

What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the – on that creative level. It’s fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn’t like it as a living.

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

There are obviously so many artists that are very inspiring, but I can’t say that they like that I have someone in mind that is like a creative direction of where I want to go as an artist. I think I’m just doing my own thing.

Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others

Lastly, we can learn to have faith in ourselves and our creative abilities, no matter how difficult the task may seem.

Any discussion among women about racism must include the recognition and use of anger. This discussion must be direct and creative because it is crucial

Unacknowledged class differences rob women of each others’ energy and creative insight

As a kid I was creative.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces – and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

I’ve been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it’s true that I enjoy filmmaking and I’m an enthusiast.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

The kangaroo is down, we repeat, the kangaroo is down

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

God did not create woman from man’s head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting

The country doesn’t deserve anything less than success from us. Let us aim for success

Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person

A teacher should have a creative mind.

That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.

They doubted me, but now they can’t deny me.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

An era that has lost its gods cannot just choose one at random and worship it. So it must be indifferent to all gods, including the Christian God.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case.

People didn’t believe me when I told them I practiced harder than I played, but, it was true. That’s where my comfort zone was created by the time . The game came, all I had to do was react to what my body was already accustomed to doing.

The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I’m out there, no one can bother me.

Ronaldo was my hero. I loved watching players like Zidane, Ronaldinho, and Rivaldo, but Ronaldo was the best striker I’ve ever seen.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.