Quotes on Be Creative

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.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide.

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

If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done

Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.