Top 100 Do Creativity Quotes
#1. Creativity should be integral to everything that we do. Creativity should also be intrinsic to our personality, if excellence is what we seek.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#2. No matter what you are currently able to do, creativity can make you capable of more.
John C. Maxwell
#3. You have to be prepared to think outside the box ... Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.
Geoffrey Canada
#4. My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
Frank Gehry
#5. If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.
James Altucher
#6. Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.
Ernie J Zelinski
#7. 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
#8. My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.
Chen Guangbiao
#9. I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.
Philippe Petit
#10. Remember first that everything you think, say, and do is a reflection of what you've decided about yourself; a statement of Who You Are; an act of creation in your deciding who you want to be.
Neale Donald Walsch
#12. Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.
Deepak Chopra
#13. It's hard for me to talk about love,' she said. 'I think movies are the way I do that.
Anna North
#14. Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology ... Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.
Robert M. Pirsig
#15. Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison
#16. Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
Stephen Sondheim
#17. Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.
Rajneesh
#18. I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
Ruth Rendell
#19. I really do believe that anything in life, any obstacle or challenge, can be made better with humor.
Amy Poehler
#20. For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not where do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The how is the mystery. The how is fragile.
E.L. Konigsburg
#21. The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.
Rodolfo R. Llinas
#22. I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" - like not on furniture or the walls.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#23. I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.
Winston Graham
#24. That's it! Stretch way beyond your perceived limitations..Go for yours like you own it already, because you truly do.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#25. Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
Benjamin Carson
#26. It turns out there is only one possible thing to do in this circumstance, to wait the only way there is to wait through eternity, and that is through creativity.
Last Man Standing
#27. The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
Jack Welch
#28. Those who are passionate about what they do have an advantage that is nearly impossible to overcome. In passion there is energy, creativity, resilience and persistence. Passion will get it done.
Ralph Marston
#30. The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.
David Rakoff
#31. Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting your every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who you are. Your very essence is as a creator. No one creates exactly like you do. Your thoughts and actions color the world.
Renae A. Sauter
#32. I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there.
David Lynch
#33. If you are any kind of an artist, then validation ... can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it.
David Sedaris
#34. The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?
Alva Noto
#35. What does one do with experience? Do we react negatively, or do we (pro)create from the space of positivity?
T.F. Hodge
#37. Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.
Iris Apfel
#38. I do think it's getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable. The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world's putting out at you.
Adrian Tomine
#39. Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.
Francois Englert
#40. I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
#41. Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.
Bernard Arnault
#42. We're not talking about your life. We're talking about your writing. Your imagination. Your creativity. And it's time you learned there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your writing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more.
Jennifer Echols
#43. I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.
Daniel Smith
#44. One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.
Edward Swift
#45. Creativity requires activity ... And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.
Julia Cameron
#46. Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache of not being able to find the answer. We have worked hard, but we've hit the wall. We have no idea what to do next.
Jonah Lehrer
#47. I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh
#48. I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.
Jack Kerouac
#49. Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
Ray Kroc
#50. When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
Rudyard Kipling
#51. I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there's not a safe environment for that.
Jeremy Jordan
#52. Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.
Paula Wagner
#53. Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.
Nicholas Negroponte
#54. I think creativity becomes really beautiful and magical when you allow it to do what it's needing you to do.
Brandy Norwood
#55. For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.
Jerry Seinfeld
#56. Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
William Bernbach
#57. I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.
Philip Schultz
#58. What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
Karl Lagerfeld
#59. I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.
Antony Hegarty
#60. (reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune
'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'
(pause)
'No. Magic possesses them'.
Tommy Tune
#61. I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything.
Eric Thomas
#62. Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.
Elizabeth Goudge
#63. I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.
Ray Stata
#64. I do think the internet has killed the mystery of the planet. It's removed the pain, the passion, and the struggle - I firmly believe they're all part of creativity.
Don Letts
#65. It is a miracle if we can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do ... Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal
Shirley A. Moore
#66. And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
#67. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before - colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#68. Where do starfish come from?" asked Sam.
"From the sky," answered Stella. "Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea."
"Weren't the stars afraid of drowning?" asked Sam.
"No," said Stella. "They all learned how to swim.
Marie-Louise Gay
#69. In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...
Susi Moore
#70. Creativity is a celebration of life ... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!
Joseph C Zinker
#71. Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
Ken Robinson
#72. Let emotions happen naturally. If we try to control them they will never be released and will stick with us like a shadow. But if we can observe them with no judgement, no labels and when we do label them because it's difficult transmute them into positive creativity.
Matthew Donnelly
#73. Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.
Gay Hendricks
#74. I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne
#75. Originality has nothing to do with producing something ' new' - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one's origins, it is the dance of the eternal return ... and is as ancient as the Dreamtime.
Billy Marshall Stoneking
#76. My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don'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.
Ice Cube
#77. With poetry and writing, the question isn't "do you know the right words?".
The real question is, "can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?
Jacob Nordby
#78. We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make.
Michael Gungor
#79. Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)
Donovan L. Graham
#80. I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#81. I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#82. When you get right down to it, lots of things that look fancy are easy to do, and lots of things that seem easy are hard, even if you're very creative and a good artist.
Nancy Freund
#83. What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
Malorie Blackman
#84. Your priority has to be the creativity - and build a brand. That's what everybody did - Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That's the smart thing to do.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
#85. If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.
Nikki Sixx
#86. Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity ... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.
Daniel H. Pink
#87. I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.
Greg Lake
#88. What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.
Julian Barnes
#89. The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
Henri Poincare
#90. You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply repeat it. Humans can ... how do you moderns say it ... think outside the cup.
Rick Riordan
#91. I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.
Jane Austen
#92. You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are.
Don Draper
#93. Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.
Gay Mitchell
#94. In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.
Muhammad Yunus
#95. Fear is a conditioned response, a life-draining habit that can easily consume your energy, creativity and spirit if you are not careful. When fear rears its ugly head, beat it down quickly. The best way to do that is to do the thing you fear. Fast.
Robin S. Sharma
#96. We think we are far more creative and wiser than others who are surviving and struggling. We never put us in their shoe. We always expect them to do the same.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#97. Creativity. Inspiration. We worship them here, Donald. They are our guidance, and we revere them. Do you understand? Revere them. So many people think that writers merely sit down and string together words and poof! a piece of writing. Not so!
David Bischoff
#98. If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.
Harold S. Kushner
#99. You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.
Amy Landecker
#100. You don't create or write to be successful; you don't create or paint to be famous or to increase your wealth. You do all of these things because your soul is calling you to do them.
Kelly Martin
