Top 100 Quotes About Creating Something From Nothing
#1. There was something transporting about the act of creating something from nothing.
Nicholas Sparks
#2. I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.
Harvey Mason Jr.
#3. Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.
Glenn Branca
#4. I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.
John Wells
#5. There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself. Professor Piper
Rainbow Rowell
#6. Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing.
Graham King
#7. Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
Tracy Chapman
#8. I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing ... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#9. You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
Barry Mann
#10. Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happy
Sunday Adelaja
#11. As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.
Cary Fukunaga
#12. In creating superdelegates, the Democratic Party recognized the expertise that its top holders of public office have gained by running for office themselves. They are experts at winning. They know the issues. They are in a unique position to evaluate presidential candidates.
Jim Hunt
#13. By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.
Evan Osnos
#14. The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.
Gordon Brown
#15. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.
Brandon Boyd
#16. I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.
Trey Songz
#17. The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.
Sherrod Brown
#18. Doing scrum" is as meaningless (and impossible) as creating an instance of an abstract class. Scrum is a framework for surfacing organizational dysfunction. It is not a process and it is not prescriptive.
Tobias Mayer
#19. Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.
Ted Sundquist
#20. I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a stable and secure environment for performers to feel they can push to the end of their ability.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#21. Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
Joseph Barbera
#22. I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.
Daniel Goldstein
#23. I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn't say it, because I wasn't sure it was true.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#24. Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one.
James Shapiro
#25. You are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of creating and sustaining extraordinary health, wealth, happiness, love, and success in your life, as any other person on earth.
Hal Elrod
#26. Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.
Murray Rothbard
#27. By creating compelling content, you can become a celebrity.
Paul Gillin
#28. When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.
Helena Christensen
#29. Now we are less interested in equipping and refining thought, more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield measurable enhancements of material well-being - for those who create and master them, at least. Now
Marilynne Robinson
#30. We as in us living on this planet called Earth does not mean we own it, us creating stuff technically does not mean we invent'd this.
N.a.
#31. My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about it.
Uday Kotak
#32. Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.
Gabe Newell
#33. Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery.
Rajneesh
#34. A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
Bill Gates
#35. If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
Rajneesh
#36. Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to make the clothes come to life.
Mia Moretti
#37. I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#38. I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.
Daniela Ruah
#39. Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably high marks. The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.
Mark Shields
#40. Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and see it through, you can succeed in this country. And in fulfilling this promise, entrepreneurs also play a critical role in expanding our economy and creating jobs.
Barack Obama
#41. I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
Tim Ferriss
#42. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.
Paul Clitheroe
#43. I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.
Jamie Lidell
#44. The excitement of creating is followed by desperate self-doubt. Courage and inspiration compete with discouragement and despair.
Diana Pavlac Glyer
#45. To abandon language is to stop/creating a place other than your own life/in which to live. It is to enter/the terrible certainty of the flesh. Even god/is only possible through language.
Jude Nutter
#46. Thinking is an act of creating sunshine! The more we think, the more our way will be illuminated!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. There are a few obvious consequences and perhaps one subtle possibility. One obvious thing is that, to stimulate the economy, President Obama has committed to creating millions of green jobs that will leave a legacy - much as Roosevelt's public works did during the new deal.
Denis Hayes
#48. I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage.
Mat Kearney
#49. When you are new at something, you need to start creating.
Jason Fried
#50. We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we'll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.
Matt Cutts
#51. We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.
Bill Gates
#52. When you're performing, you're creating a moment.
Erykah Badu
#53. Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.
Robert G. Allen
#54. Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.
John Friend
#55. Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest.
Anne Rice
#56. It's important to me in the creation of it because I figured as soon as I crossed that threshold into effects and loops it would completely undermine the premise of how I go about creating things physically, with the instrument.
Colin Stetson
#57. One individual can typically care for no more than 10 people. Creating a 1:10 people system from the beginning allows you to provide the depth of spiritual relationship and mentoring people need and desire, while also scaling for growth.
Bill Woolsey
#58. Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.
Virginia H. Pearce
#59. I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating ... anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.
Steven Soderbergh
#60. A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating stuff. It was a blast.
Reece Thompson
#61. Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.
Albert Paley
#63. I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.
Jeb Bush
#64. You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.
Ken Rockwell
#65. Love and help others unconditionally without expectation you are creating in effect, this creation will multiply for you in a million ways.
Ana Maria Frith, Limitless: Change Your Life
Ana M Frith
#66. Most people and most organizations can't stand the uncertainty and the risk of real innovation. Learning and creating are inherently vulnerable. There's never enough certainty. People want guarantees.
Brene Brown
#67. Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.
Stan Kroenke
#68. It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.
Louis Garrel
#69. With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing.
Gunter Grass
#70. It is no blasphemy to say that every man creates the God creating him. We are facets of a work whose finished form we cannot imagine, though our imaginations, aided by grace, are the means - or at least one means - of its completion.
Christian Wiman
#71. It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.
Avey Tare
#72. President Obama keeps telling us that he is "creating jobs." But more and more Americans have no jobs. The unemployment rate has declined slightly, but only because many people have stopped looking for jobs. You are only counted as unemployed if you are still looking for a job.
Thomas Sowell
#73. I pretty much believe, as everyone in the B Team does, that business must succeed beyond the bottom line. More important than profits is how you get to them. Measuring financial earnings and losses only is definitely not enough and has led us astray from creating a better world for all.
Guilherme Leal
#74. Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.
Michelle Phan
#75. The Danish phenomenon "hygge" is about creating an atmosphere that is warm, relaxed, friendly, close, loving, comfortable and welcoming - a state of feeling connected and loved.
Iben Dissing Sandahl
#76. Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
Joanne Woodward
#77. You've got to keep moving, keep creating.
Godfrey
#78. We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#79. Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.
Nina Berberova
#80. Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma.
Janeane Garofalo
#81. When drops from the canopy kissed her face, he drew his wings over his head, creating a shelter. I've always room for you too.
Kresley Cole
#82. Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
Joe Baca
#83. Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
C.S. Lewis
#84. Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#85. Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the Eurozone.
Michael Hudson
#86. Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.
Travis Bradberry
#87. Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours.
Shannon L. Alder
#88. Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children
Nelson Mandela
#89. The key to creating health is figuring out the cause of the problem and then providing the right conditions for the body and soul to thrive. It isn't taking another medication.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
#90. Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.
Henry Louis Gates
#91. Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
Dick Dale
#92. It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
Henry Fielding
#93. The worst weapon of your enemy, rival, competitor, distractor is creating self-doubt in you and/or your team. They cannot win you without first destroying your self-worth.
Assegid Habtewold
#94. You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.
T. Harv Eker
#95. You have 30 to 50 times better chances of creating a successful business than at succeeding as a short-term trader.
Robert Rolih
#97. When a room at the CIA headquarters is secret, a secret from people who spend their lives creating and breaking secrets, that's some pretty serious black-ops shit.
Scott Sigler
#98. The flawed human error is expecting someone else to build the world we desire, rather than creating it for ourselves.
Shawn Stern
#99. Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.
Marco Rubio
#100. You are therefore in the process of experiencing yourself by creating yourself anew in every single moment. As am I. Through you.
Neale Donald Walsch
