Uncreative Quotes

#1. Over time, big industries tend to get flabby and uncreative and risk-averse - and if the right outsider company has the means and creativity to come at the industry with a fresh perspective and rethink the whole thing, there's often a huge opportunity there.

Tim Urban

#2. So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.

Benjamin Harkarvy

#3. Even trees are creative, rocks are creative. You are man, the very culmination of this existence. You are at the top, you are conscious. Never think with wrong beliefs, and never be attached to wrong beliefs, that you are uncreative.

Rajneesh

#4. I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

Johnny Depp

#5. Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. I don't see how you can live in a black and white world without becoming ... uncreative. You can't make anything new. Everything already is what it is.

Susan Meissner

#7. There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

Thom Yorke

#8. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Teresa Amabile

#9. The uncreative will always waste their energies on the impossible. Be unable to recognize the boundaries, how much of the spiritual the objects can bear and assume.

Carl Einstein

#10. Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

Angela Davis

#11. The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

John Edensor Littlewood

#12. I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

Twyla Tharp

#13. I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative

David Cross

#14. The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?

Jacque Fresco

#15. When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

Tony Bennett

#16. I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

Imogen Cunningham

#17. Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

Sylvia Plath

#18. The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Anthony Jay

#19. Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

Michael Shermer

#20. All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

Alec Guinness

#21. Not a good man. Drinks too much in an uncreative way.

James Dickey

#22. I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

Sasha Grey

#23. I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs.

Deborah Moggach

#24. Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me, creativity is of tremendous import. An uncreative person is not a religious person at all.

Rajneesh

#25. Why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age ...

John Geddes

#26. In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

Jonah Lehrer

#27. Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd George, Foch and William Hohenzollern share with Charlie Chaplin that ineluctable oblivion which awaits the uncreative mind.

John B. S. Haldane

#28. I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.

Thom Yorke

#29. You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.

Joseph Bologna

#30. One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

Etty Hillesum

#31. A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti