Quotes About Thinking Creatively

#1. Mister Lipwig, the world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can. And in my experience, those who say that it can be done are usually telling the truth. It's just a matter of thinking creatively.

Terry Pratchett

#2. The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.

Madeleine L'Engle

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Dandelion! You're asleep in the saddle!' 'I'm not asleep. I'm thinking creatively!

Andrzej Sapkowski

#6. Simply thinking creatively is not the same as being innovative, and only those who risk breaking out of their comfort zone by putting thought into action will discover the profusion of opportunity that exists.

Michael Lum

#7. Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Price Pritchett

#8. On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.

Frank Zappa

#9. Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.

James Cromwell

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I think if you do what I want to do creatively, it will also make money for you.

Timothy Miller

#17. There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only individuals can combat statism.

Leonard Read

#18. I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

Blake Lewis

#19. Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

Oliver DeMille

#20. A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

Erin Willett

#21. Everybody's able to pour into each other creatively, and pop into the studio and pop out. It feels like a community. As an artistic community I think it's really cool.

Mikky Ekko

#22. I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.

Damon Lindelof

#23. From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.

Sasha Grey

#24. The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

Tony Wagner

#25. How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.

David J. Schwartz

#26. Assimilating the style of predecessors is necessary before one can develop one's own. Only by immersing oneself in the domain can one find out whether there is room left for contributing creatively to it, and whether one is capable of doing so.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#27. I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

Shepard Fairey

#28. We have to be careful not to think that meditation is about getting rid of thoughts. On the contrary, I would say that meditation helps us to creatively engage with our thoughts and not fixate on them.

Martine Batchelor

#29. I think it's important to evolve and grow and take risks creatively, instead of repeating yourself and doing the same thing over and over.

G-Eazy

#30. The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.

Josh Turner

#31. I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

Agnes De Mille

#32. To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

E. O. Wilson