Creative Blocks Quotes

#1. I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative.

Rainn Wilson

#2. The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around ... The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#3. There is no vaccination against creative blocks. And nowhere else are they as devastating as in fashion which, unlike art or literature, dies the moment it is born.

Katarina West

#4. Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

Nita Leland

#5. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles BY STEVEN PRESSFIELD Pressfield's

Daniel H. Pink

#6. Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.
Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas.

Toba Beta

#7. Take the next little step-the smaller you make it, the more likely you'll take it..

Jill Badonsky

#8. The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.

Suzanne Fields

#9. It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.

Kim Deal

#10. Allah loves His creation. That's why He rewards so greatly for serving them.

Yasmin Mogahed

#11. We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A ... student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education ...

Victor Papanek

#12. My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#13. Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.

Matt Bondurant

#14. As soon as you start claiming you can be someone that you are not, you are crazy.

Kristen Stewart

#15. One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

Duncan Jones

#16. The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

Maria Montessori

#17. The best way to become more creative is to create nothing. By this, I mean that you should return to zero point. Rid yourself of all the mental and emotional blocks that keep you from manifesting your full creative potential.

Ilchi Lee

#18. Natural born geniuses, like Mozart or Shakespeare, don't have anything more than you - they have something less. What they lack are the self-imposed blocks to the outflow of this infinite creative intelligence.

Derek Rydall

#19. All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

Erica Jong

#20. Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

Julia Cameron

#21. When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

Arlen Specter

#22. Procrastination is a form of punishment

Jill Badonsky

#23. Neglecting passion blocks creative flow. When you're passionate, you're energized. Likewise, when you lack passion, your energy is low and unproductive. Energy is everything when it comes to being successful.

Gabrielle Bernstein