Top 100 Quotes About Being Creative
#1. I'm not extravagant, so I won't need to rein it in too much. Me and my friend make each other cards. I love being creative and making things. But a better credit crunch idea is to not even bother sending cards.
Konnie Huq
#2. I liked being active. I liked being creative.
Sarah Hughes
#3. I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.
Jeff Garlin
#4. I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#5. Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.
Tom Irwin
#7. I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.
Derrick Rose
#8. I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.
Bob Ross
#9. 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.
Bill Gates
#10. If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.
Chuck Barris
#11. I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#12. You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
Hans Vestberg
#13. I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun.
Bethany Hamilton
#14. I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.
Josh Peck
#15. Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.
Bethany Hamilton
#16. It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.
D.W. Winnicott
#17. Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.
John Cleese
#18. If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.
Austin Kleon
#19. I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.
Eric Cantona
#20. I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.
Anthony Hopkins
#21. Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
Anni Albers
#22. We all get caught up in the process, especially when you have a wave of success. But to me, being creative is not about rehashing everything you've done over and over. It's to continue to grow, continue to get better.
Vince Gill
#23. That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature.
Chris Sharma
#24. I try not to read reviews. It's hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I try not to let it in and to just give the best performances I can. At the end of the day, if you're trying to please the critics, you're missing what's really important: being creative and having fun.
Reid Scott
#25. After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves.
Twyla Tharp
#26. The second part of it, which I think is really critical, is understanding that being creative means that you have to sell your ideas.
Jocelyn K. Glei
#27. It's all about doing work, being creative and staying true to who you are and having fun. That's what us actors are all about.
Ryan Merriman
#28. I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.
Donnie Wahlberg
#29. Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.
Sofia Coppola
#30. I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
Ziggy Marley
#31. Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.
Robert Dessaix
#32. Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.
Woody Allen
#33. Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.
Jerry Harrison
#34. While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.
John Cleese
#35. Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences." Kevin Kelly
Timothy Ferriss
#36. It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.
Craig Kilborn
#37. They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
Edward De Bono
#38. Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.
Joshua Foer
#39. I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
Taylor Swift
#40. I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.
Hal Elrod
#41. Not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure ... of being creative individuals.
Norman Vincent Peale
#42. I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
Jeremy Renner
#43. My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.
RuPaul
#44. creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life. It's what distinguishes us from the mush. And it's why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer to the chaos.
Danny Gregory
#45. Working on being creative in the TV world is endless. It never stops. It's a challenge that never disappears.
John De Mol Jr.
#46. I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
William Wiley
#47. The consistency - either the theme from record to record, or the band, the different musicians - it really varies. So if I get criticism, I don't worry about that, because I'm still being creative.
Jason Molina
#48. The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity ...
Marianne Williamson
#49. Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
Billy Joel
#50. I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.
Abbie Cornish
#51. Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.
Jonathan Weeks
#52. Never give up. Never stop being creative in finding ways to get exposure. Also, prepared anytime and all the time. You never know who you will run into.
Christina Milian
#53. I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.
Guy Berryman
#54. Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.
Pauline Kael
#55. I think I'm just too desirable when I'm being creative, and I want to know what I need to do to lessen my attractiveness. If that's even possible.
Colleen Hoover
#56. Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.
Dave Gahan
#57. Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#58. I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.
Katy B
#59. And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
Jackie DeShannon
#62. Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.
Emma Donoghue
#63. I feel more comfortable confidence-wise. You get to the NHL, and you're nervous about trying things. With experience, you're not as afraid of being creative.
Martin St. Louis
#64. Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono
#65. Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being "creative" and before you know it, you're writing.
Cory Doctorow
#66. Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job
David Byrne
#67. Being creative, joyful, happy, and beloved are the ultimate purposes of a profound life.
Debasish Mridha
#68. I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.
Bonnie Bassler
#69. I still love being creative. I still love the aspects of working together with great, talented people. But it's a weird dichotomy; I'm being blessed with more opportunities, but I'm going to be taking less of them.
Sandra Bullock
#70. Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
Ken Robinson
#71. Being wrong is part of being creative. You really can't make any kind of creative contribution without doing it wrong a few times. There's just no other way to do it.
Jim Hough
#72. Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions
everyone can and should be innovative.
Paul McDonald
#73. Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
Val Kilmer
#74. Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
Ken Robinson
#75. Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.
Wayne Coyne
#76. Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.
Scott Caan
#77. [At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.
Amy Poehler
#78. I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.
Brett Dennen
#79. I wouldn't suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I've definitely noticed a pattern of being 'creative.'
Scott Weiss
#80. I try not to be influenced when it comes to being creative, just in order to sustain my own voice and character. However, I do have many inspirations from the worlds of literature, music, comedy and film.
Doc Brown
#81. A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.
Kurt Hanks
#82. Nothing that Robert Plant does will ever equal Led Zeppelin, but that doesn't mean he's going to stop being creative. Jimmy Page has so many incredibly cool projects, but it's not Led Zeppelin; there will only ever be one Led Zeppelin.
Nikki Sixx
#83. I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.
Chris Tucker
#84. Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality ... Experience is the opposite of being creative.
Paul Arden
#85. There is no room for being creative in today's business ... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.
Martin Wolf
#86. I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.
Vince Gill
#87. Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love!
Woodie Flowers
#88. Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a
mistake.
John Cleese
#89. I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.
Jim Carrey
#90. Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
Twyla Tharp
#91. Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.
Jane Seymour
#92. It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
Adam Duritz
#93. Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.
Paul Ford
#94. You get inspiration from craziest places. It's just about being creative. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I'm saying, to reach the people. You never know who can feel it; who it can connect to.
Nayvadius Cash
#95. The essence of being human is being creative.
Joel Garreau
#96. Tim Olyphant is a machine. He never stops thinking and being creative.
Mykelti Williamson
#97. Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.
Wil Wheaton
#98. Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.
Heather Sellers
#99. Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.
Robert Greene
#100. We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.
Julia Cameron
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