Top 100 Quotes About Creatively
#1. When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.
Timothy Leary
#2. I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
Rachel Kushner
#3. It's hard to make a living at independent films, at least in my experience. It can be hard to be really creatively fulfilled in some television. Between the two, I get a bit of both.
Julianne Nicholson
#4. To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.
Peter Abrahams
#5. Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.
Steve Jobs
#6. If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious because you feel safe with the people that you're around.
Jane Levy
#7. In my experience, 'SNL' has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas 'MadTV' - even in my 13 episodes there - had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively.
Taran Killam
#8. When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.
Brian Tracy
#9. People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.
John Lasseter
#10. The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
Harold Prince
#11. One of the ways that my show has been most successful is when it's dealing with women's issues, like Spanx and plucking and having heavy tits. That's why it feels like, creatively, an advantage.
Rachel Bloom
#12. Figure out what depletes you creatively and get it out out of your life. (This doesn't apply to spouse and kids.) Give yourself permission to put garbage on the screen. A lot of days it's the only way you'll be able to keep going. You can clean it up later.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#13. I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.
Neil Patrick Harris
#14. I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening.
Maria Bamford
#15. Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.
Derek Bok
#16. We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#17. In a world where one man's trash is another man's treasure, I'd argue that the first man wasn't thinking creatively enough about his trash.
Justin Slater
#18. COMMON SENSE CONCLUSION: Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and effectively manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing conditions of our times.
Lee Johnson
#19. When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.
Eric Weiner
#20. A lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#21. Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.
Rowan Atkinson
#23. You are not the problem but fashion designers, who are limiting themselves creatively.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#24. I'm always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.
Mark Wahlberg
#25. People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.
Richard Rohr
#26. It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.
R. Alan Woods
#28. As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.
John Fusco
#29. Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
Matt Groening
#30. There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant.
Gabriel Mann
#31. Recognize your highest calling as early in life as possible. Proactively and creatively persist, day in and day out. Leave an enduring legacy.
Frank McKinney
#32. I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.
Nicholas Stoller
#33. To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.
Katharine Hepburn
#34. Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.
James Cromwell
#35. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.
Anne Lamott
#36. Live creatively. Create life. These are two ways to make a better world.
Tablo
#37. When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.
Edward Kitsis
#38. Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.
Ken Robinson
#39. I think there's something so wonderful about being part of the process from the seed of the idea to seeing it come to life on a screen. And to have a hand in that creatively, not just showing up as an actor for hire.
Jennifer Aniston
#40. Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.
George Carlin
#41. All around the world, there are many great schools, wonderful teachers, and inspiring leaders who are working creatively to provide students with the kinds of personalized, compassionate, and community-oriented education they need.
Ken Robinson
#42. If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is because we are too complacent. We must become conscious to the real threats before us and act creatively, imaginatively, now. We can no longer look to leadership beyond ourselves.
Terry Tempest Williams
#43. Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
Sylvester Stallone
#44. I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.
Amandla Stenberg
#45. The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Steven Spielberg
#46. One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.
M. Night Shyamalan
#47. The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).
Jonathan Kellerman
#48. Hello? Do you see me? I'm working as creatively as possible and you want more and more and I'm out of juice and if you send me one more email I'm going to walk into the ocean and swallow water.
Cole Harmonson
#49. If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
Robert Sternberg
#50. For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'
Jill Soloway
#51. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.
Robert A. Heinlein
#52. Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.
Jonathan Demme
#53. Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.
Bill Simmons
#54. Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.
Ashley Montagu
#55. Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.
James Surowiecki
#56. Since Thor wasn't there to creatively cuss, Sam did the honors, muttering a few comments that I doubted her grandparents would've approved of.
"Those are just expressions," I added hastily. "In no way was my friend giving you permission to do ... any of those rude and colorful things.
Rick Riordan
#57. The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.
Brendan Gleeson
#58. I was feeling miserable physically, in a lot of pain to the point where it was almost crippling me, especially creatively. I decided to take that and use it as an inspiration for getting out of bed and making something again.
Frank Iero
#59. I'm very strong creatively, in my music.
Leona Lewis
#60. My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.
Mimi Kennedy
#61. Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
Bill Mollison
#62. I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.
George Mastras
#63. I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.
Lupita Nyong'o
#64. I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.
Lady Gaga
#65. The type of person that might thrive on Vine in a six-second clip might not be the same kind of entertainer who would shine on a 10-minute vlog on YouTube. If anything, having these different platforms gives more people a chance to creatively express themselves.
Tyler Oakley
#66. O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time
Bill Hayes
#67. There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson
#68. You have to make sure that people are still motivated and happy and creatively challenged so that it can all be stitched together. The voice acting starts after a lot of the storyboards are done.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#69. It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.
Christopher Meledandri
#70. I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so I wasn't really aware of it. Creatively, I don't think it was that great.
Giorgio Moroder
#71. In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.
Brian Michael Bendis
#72. I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.
Mark Ryden
#73. I am happy to note that the BJP as an organization is looking to creatively harness Power of Social Media. We have to ensure our Youth stays engaged in our Democratic process. We have to make our Democratic process accessible to them. Social media is an important tool for this.
Narendra Modi
#74. Any self-help program that discourages me from thinking for myself, that is, from tweaking what I've learned to understand myself is suspect. Growth is all about thinking creatively, and I can't very well do that if I take on the role of parrot.
Dannye Williamsen
#75. Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.
James Cromwell
#76. I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.
Kenny Chesney
#77. I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
Brian Wilson
#78. I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.
Mandy Moore
#79. I think if you do what I want to do creatively, it will also make money for you.
Timothy Miller
#80. It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
Douglas Coupland
#81. I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
Gertrude Stein
#82. I deny that either singers or conductors can create or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.
Giuseppe Verdi
#83. Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life's negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation.
Viktor E. Frankl
#84. Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
Carl Honore
#85. Employers say they want people who can think creatively, who can innovate, who can communicate well, work in teams and are adaptable and self-confident.
Ken Robinson
#86. American Christian churches have a golden opportunity to put aside our idolatrous ties to Republicans and Democrats and think more critically and creatively about how the gospel relates to our new and emerging political culture. When
Charles C. Camosy
#87. Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.
Robert Reed
#88. You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."
Jeremy Renner
#89. I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.
Matt Bomer
#90. I'm just lucky to have great parents. My sister's an actress. My brother's a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a ... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.
Grace Gummer
#91. And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
Jimmy Buffett
#92. The latest scientific studies have revealed extraordinary findings. The brain is much more flexible and adaptable than previously thought. It can evolve and creatively work around limitations and nullify them.
James Morcan
#93. I think it's amazing that I'm 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life.
Amy Landecker
#94. The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.
Teju Cole
#95. It's really just a freedom that we have with Amazon to push ourselves creatively. It allowed me to say, you know, okay this is going to be a little half-hour film here to start the season.
Jill Soloway
#96. Fashion for me is another way I get to express myself creatively. It is one of the fun things I get to do: to play dress-up, and create outfits and looks that aren't typical. I am an artist, so I like creating things. Shoes are my favorite thing.
Rihanna
#97. I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.
Flea
#98. I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.
Sandra Bernhard
#99. As always when people are overtaxed creatively, they come up with the most dubious suggestions.
Timur Vermes
#100. I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb.
Sienna Miller
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