Creativity Quotes

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Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.

The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.

Catherine Ingram

Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

Your life's work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

Indeed, it is the perennial (and almost always unverbalized) premise of creativity, to show that the tangible, visible, and audible universe is infinitesimal in comparison to the one that awaits discovery through exploration of the external world and of the human psyche.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts... 'I always do what pleases God.'... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge?...Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.

Laurie Beth Jones

Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

The person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

William Julius Wilson

Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.

Simon Soloveychik

Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you. Trust that where it leads, is exactly where you're supposed to be. Your authentic self knows where you're headed. Don't wrestle with Spirit, collaborate with it.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

Don't worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

God is constantly creating anew. And God also, invites us to be re-created and join the work of God as co-(re)creators.... Imagine the Kingdom of God as the creative process of God reengaging in all that we know and experience.... When we employ creativity to make this world better, we participate with God in the recreation of the world.

Creativity in that respect is the capacity to see 'things' differently by lifting them from their present context so that they lose their original meaning and, seen in a new context, evoke another and so become something else.

Herman Hertzberger