Quotes About Killing Creativity

#1. I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the television to watch a movie or play Nintendo or Xbox. I think there is nothing better for killing creativity and imagination.

Alexandra Adornetto

#2. I like teaching, too," said Gilbert. "It's good training, for one thing. Why, Anne, I've learned more in the weeks I've been teaching the young ideas of White Sands than I learned in all the years I went to school myself.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. The plural of anecdotes is not data

Ben Goldacre

#4. Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

Margaret Mead

#5. I know people like to work for me, and quite a few have gotten rich working for me.

Red McCombs

#6. I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Colin Baker

#7. Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

Christiane Northrup

#9. Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

Larry Wall

#10. A fool's a man who knows better and does the thing anyway, his father's voice said.

Peter V. Brett

#11. I could look at stationers' shops forever and ever.

Dodie Smith

#12. Shame breeds fear. It crushes our tolerance for vulnerability, thereby killing engagement, innovation, creativity, productivity, and trust.

Brene Brown