Quotes About The Enemy Of Creativity

#1. Perfection is the enemy of creativity

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#2. Conceit is the enemy of creativity.

Kevin Ansbro

#3. thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious.

Sean Patrick

#4. Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

Pablo Picasso

#5. Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

David Lynch

#6. Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

T.D. Jakes

#7. The enemy of creativity ... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.

Seth Godin

#8. A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a really unconscious day and I'm going to let it all out. Or, today's going to be analytical. And some days all mixed up.

K.M. Soehnlein

#9. The enemy of creativity is fear.

Seth Godin

#10. Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.

Ray Bradbury

#11. I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

J.G. Ballard

#12. Make uncertainty your ally, not your enemy. All leaps forward depend on reaching into the unknown. Once you see the unknown as the source of creativity, you no longer fear it. Instead, you welcome the fact that life renews itself in unexpected ways.

Deepak Chopra

#13. The enemy of fear is creativity.

Seth Godin

#14. 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

#15. My creativity, no matter how poor, is for me a far better guide than all the knowledge with which my head has been crammed. In the night of Power, its glimmer keeps the enemy forces at bay.

Raoul Vaneigem

#16. When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.

Arthur Miller

#17. Procrastinate strategically ... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.

Adam Grant

#18. Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Norman Podhoretz

#19. My creativity isn't rooted in confidence. It grows from many things, no doubt, but chief among them is a deep, rebellious, and indeed almost hostile stance toward complacency- about anything. It feels like the enemy. And certainty? It closes doors. Ends discussions. Shuts other people out.

Robin Black

#20. Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Elie Wiesel

#21. Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.

Alex Bogusky

#22. Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity, but it can be a resource for creativity.

Adam M. Grant

#23. The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Pablo Picasso

#24. Comparison is the enemy to creativity.

E'yen A. Gardner

#25. Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity.

Ray Bradbury

#26. I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own
memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called
rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,
a great human gift disowned.

Grace Paley