Creativity Quotes

There are two gradations of cold that are always acceptable: Mild Frost, which is preferable for reading and writing and any other activity done indoors, and Absolute Zero, which is the only temperature suitable for sleep. There is nothing more delicious than being swathed in a cocoon of blankets and awaking with a nose frosted over with rime, and once I do achieve vampiric heights and fall asleep with the mastery of a corpse lately dead, I am best left alone until I wake up at my usual time. I do tend to bite when rattled out of my flocculent coffin, and everyone in my building knows never to disturb me during the early morning hours. Authors, being crepuscular creatures, should never be roused before 11am: the creative mind is never turned off; it only dies momentarily and its revived by the scent of coffee at the proper time.Bacon is also an acceptable restorative.

~ Michelle Franklin

Creativity is not a gift, it’s a mindset that you practice

~ Natasha Tsakos

The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.

~ Natasha Tsakos

Turn your thoughts to novel writing—narrative, let it be about what it will, is read, because the mind quietly acquiesces, and it requires no trouble to think about it. On your part it will demand much less care in the composition. Never mind improbabilities—put together a sufficient number of facts—the more unlikely the better. If you are too idle to choose the trouble of inventing, collect eight or nine of the most popular works of that sort; take a piece of one, and a piece of another, and put them together, only a little altered, just to disguise them: never mind whether what the painters call keeping, can in this motley assemblage be attended to; nobody thinks about that: sprinkle the whole plentifully with horrors of some sort or other, to stimulate the languid attention, and you will have a certainty of a sale at least among the circulating libraries, which, after all, is the principal sale that can be expected; for who buy novels?—Who indeed buy books at all in these times?

~ Charlotte Turner Smith

It’s incredible how small the English language gets when you’re trying to make it fix something.

~ Corey Ann Haydu

Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves thought experiments. You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment.

~ Edward De Bono

Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.

~ Adam Grant

Creativity is just about connecting things. A whole lot of nonsense put together, and diluted with a creative passion can eventually make sense. Keep thinking. Exploring. Keep trying out new ways and methods of doing things and just when you least expect, you may stumble on that next great world-changing idea that will make all the difference.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Creativity can turn into an avalanche or a tempest, but can also flow like a meandering tributary to same destination

~ Val Uchendu

Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.

~ Michele Jennae

While she'd been drying her hair, she'd come up with a new message for her answering machine - I'm out, deliberately avoiding your call - and that simple burst of creativity had raised her spirits a bit.

~ Carrie Fisher

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

~ Niall Williams

In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Innovation comes from the Latin, “Innovare” - It means to change or alter things that already exist.

~ Pearl Zhu

Creativity is salve for the soul

~ Phillip Gary Smith

The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees’ brainpower.

~ Pearl Zhu

I love the needle poke, the red pop/ and when an arc of red drops,/ quivering and shaped like wings/ beg me to lick them off,/ quickly savoring your shoulder/ newly marked with a nearly invisible/ but indelible butterfly

~ Rachel Dacus

Always dig through the thoughts underneath the words, and be authentic of being who you are.

~ Pearl Zhu

Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest.

~ Pearl Zhu

Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.

~ Pearl Zhu

You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.

~ Pearl Zhu

Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.

~ Pearl Zhu

The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.

~ Pearl Zhu

Because Filipinos are very creative and assiduous people, they will always find a way to make things happen.

~ Tim Liwanag

Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.

~ Pearl Zhu

Most of us are still in some small way victims of the Industrial Revolution. Whether through our grandparents, our parents, or our own experience, we were raised to believe that our place in life required compliance and conformity rather than creativity and uniqueness. We have been raised in a world where information is deemed far more important than imagination. Adults replaced dreams with discipline when they were finally ready to grow up and be responsible for their lives. Whether this contrast was reinforced on an assembly line, in a cubicle, or in a classroom, the surest path to acceptance in society is accepting standardization. And we more than willingly, relinquish our uniqueness.

~ Erwin Raphael Mcmanus

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

~ Jonah Lehrer

An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy.

~ Pearl Zhu

Money chases good ideas

~ Jonah Lehrer

Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.

~ David Eddings

Love is a felt force when we become aware of it. Our cognition must be added to the reality of existence. This is the dance of love. We must cultivate our seeds that we plant in each other's lives. Only then we will enlarge our view of love, beauty, creativity, and purpose.

~ Luis Enrique Cavazos

The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage.

~ Geoff Dyer

We all have a god and a poet inside us. The poet, the human; the god, the divine.It is by the grace of our god that we can find the divine inspiration with which to wax poetic about our human experiences.

~ Michele Jennae

To beat the competition and succeed in today's competitive market, you should be abreast with the change in the marketplace not forgetting about incorporating creativity and innovation as a lifestyle.

~ Oscar Bimpong

He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.

~ David Eddings

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.

~ A.e. Samaan