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A creative and artistic home is what I’ve been looking for in the theatre.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.

A creative person has to create. It doesn’t really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common – the desire to write – could almost be considered meaningless.

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking – powerful, creative, and resonant stuff – is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

A large part of the creative process is tolerating the gap between the glorious image you had in your mind and the sad thing you’ve just made.

A lot of companies talk about letting creative lead, but Chanel actually does let it lead.

A lot of directors, they’re creative, but they’re different.

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A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it’s not the ‘popular’ choice.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they’ve got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.

A lot of the songs that I wrote during ‘Pt. 1’ and ‘Pt. 2’ are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase – a certain creative space in my life – personally and musically.

A lot of us who are creative and have all these great ideas just don’t have the money to do it.

A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic – as the scholars call it – abilities.

A novel is a big thing. It’s difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you’ve finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices.

A producer is supposed to generate an idea for a movie. And then they’re supposed to create the team, the group of people that are gonna make this movie. And within that team, the producer has to have a creative vision and a fiscal vision, and they have to adhere to both things.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It’s not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

Absolutely, you rise and fall based on your creative team.

Accessories design is one of the most creative categories. It’s like cooking, like decorating, because it involves the person. They have to choose, and they have to figure out how to wear it and to mix it based on their style.

Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else’s writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn’t. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

Acting is easier – writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it’s not. It’s for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it’s just the most extreme version of that that I’ve ever found. It’s like running, it’s exertion.

Acting isn’t really a creative profession. It’s an interpretative one.

Actors may not realize the extent of their own power. Acting is creation. It’s them bringing their own stuff, letting it marinate in their soul, in their creative engine.

Actually, I’ve taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were writing their essays in English, and they were very interesting – even the sense of structure, the conventions of writing, the different styles of writing.

Actually, ‘Wayne’s World 2’ I kind of liked. I think ‘Wayne’s World 2’ does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.

Advertising has a problem. They’re being squeezed because media buyers and digital firms are doing the creative. They’re being squeezed because people aren’t viewing their stuff.

Advertising has always been the ‘head boy’ of the communications industry, but not anymore. Now the rest – creative, digital, and media – is just as important.

Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.

After finishing my undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, where I took creative writing classes taught by Writer’s Workshop students, I applied to half a dozen MFA writing programs.

After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn’t really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of ‘Rain Fall’ to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

After multiple failures, when I tasted success, I was at my creative best – the ‘jugaadu’-best.

After Pixar’s 2006 merger with the Walt Disney Company, its CEO, Bob Iger, asked me, chief creative officer John Lasseter, and other Pixar senior managers to help him revive Disney Animation Studios. The success of our efforts prompted me to share my thinking on how to build a sustainable creative organization.

After so many years, I’ve learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That’s why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves.

After starting with ‘Premam,’ asking director Chandoo Mondeti to do a remake was a mistake because he has much more potential and creative ability to direct.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

All children have creative power.

All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I’m deeply insecure – but I’m good at hiding it.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

All human beings are very creative – full of potential, full of energy… So, money kind of allows them to express it… And if you’re successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.

All of the First Ladies were good, creative and strong. I’ve always said they should be paid.

All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it’s too hard to live here. It’s ridiculous how expensive it is.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one – on a bad, gloomy planet, to be colourful and creative seems so promising.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else’s creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

American Made is not just an event. It’s a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses.

Americans are fighters. We’re tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one – no one can stop us.

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress – and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn’t spring from the same part of the mind.

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn’t graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.

And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we’ve never… I’ve never given birth, but I feel like it’s part of our psychology.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There’s a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, ‘Oh, I wish I had done that differently.’

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn’t secure, isn’t necessarily familiar, and isn’t convenient in any sort of way. And that’s the excitement of it.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you’re working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things – to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

Anyone who’s taken a lot of creative-writing classes, or taught creative writing, has learned to dread a certain kind of manuscript. It’s long, for one thing. It has irritatingly small type; it’s grammatically meticulous when it comes to everything but punctuation, for which it has developed its own system of Tolkienic elaboration.

Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control – that’s all I want.

Anytime I get the chance to sing or work with Michael John, it is such an incredibly fertile and incredibly creative and safe and encouraging environment – and challenging, too, because he is so collaborative!

Anytime I have an idea, I’ll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don’t have to dream it all out of thin air. I don’t have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.

Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it’s going to stifle you; it’s not conducive to the writing or recording process.

Anytime you’re the creative force behind something and in front of the camera – we’re not complaining, but it is an avalanche of work.

Apparently, everyone is most scared of the psychological tests. I didn’t know how I’d fare. What I’ve found out is I may be creative and imaginative, but I’m also extremely together.

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Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.

Arsene Wenger has not just brought success to Arsenal. He is a very creative manager, producing almost fantasy football.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

Artists frequently argue that videos trivialize a song and that touring for months at a time works against the creative process, not to mention maintaining a normal lifestyle. Doing something about these complaints, however, is rare because promotional videos and touring are considered essential elements in building multimillion-unit album sales.

As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the first question is how much money is it going to make, I’m going to be in trouble anyway.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can’t shake it off.

As a creative person, you have to keep going. There’s no defined career path. There’s no security.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

As a creative, you have to be your truest form. You can’t worry about fitting into whatever boxes people want to put you in.

As a director and a creative person, I can say banning anything is wrong.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

As a kid I was creative.

As a kid, I was creative and unique, and I’ve had that my whole life.

As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn’t achieving enough.

As a typical creative, I am all ego and insecurity!

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.

As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It’s like watching a masterpiece.

As an actor, you have a ton of downtime, so it’s always good to have a hobby, especially another creative outlet outside of acting.

As an artist, I don’t care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don’t require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can.

As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.

As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven’t felt or gone through.

As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they’d provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

As much as I love to do commercial films, a touching romantic film like Mani Ratnam’s ‘Geethanjali’ will satiate my creative appetite.

As much as I’d only like to concentrate on the creative side of acting, the whole business in general is just that – a business – and you have to do your homework if you want to be successful.

As someone who’s been lucky to have a great career in tech, I know how creative and fulfilling a career in this industry can be for women. And I want to make sure we continue to recruit and retain great female hires.

As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform.

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.

As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald’s. Since then, I’ve held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as an editorial assistant for a literary magazine.

At Airbnb, we’re trying to build a culture that supports details, celebrates them, and gives our teams creative license to pursue them.

At Brit + Co , we’re always on the hunt for motivated, smart, and creative folks. And I must admit, we have received some pretty unique resumes.

At its best, entrepreneurship creates jobs, solves problems, and galvanizes creative thinking.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

At Shutterstock, we’ve been offering tutorials to customers and contributors on our blog for many years. Our audience already viewed us as thought leaders on the latest digital and creative skills; we felt it so natural for us to launch Skillfeed, which is an online marketplace for professional learning.

At the end, we’re kind of observers – creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I’m pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

At times when you’re adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

Attacking football is what I want to watch as a manager; it’s what I want from my teams. It’s easier to be destructive and get people behind the ball than to be constructive and creative.

Awards are very important for a show like ‘Rectify.’ We’re a small show; we’re on a more obscure, harder-to-find channel that is very supportive of creative and singular vision.

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

Baking is more like chemistry, following certain instructions and knowing what comes out in the end. It’s almost reassuring! Songwriting is a creative process where you go into a session with nothing and can come out of it with something incredible in the end. I never feel like I’m taking a risk with baking, but always with songwriting.

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Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I’m interested in a lot of creative stuff.

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn’t look like a Taiwanese restaurant.

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

Basicly I’m in charge of all creative aspects of the show.

Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I’m not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.

Because over and over again, the times that I’ve done really good things is because I’ve had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.

Because we are four creative people – four writers – there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

Before I was working professionally, I would do YouTube covers. But as a creative person, it was really hard for me when I wasn’t releasing my own music. That felt unnatural to me.

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn’t much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.

Before ‘The Walking Dead,’ a few of the jobs before that were just like, ‘Ugh.’ I try and make everything as creative as possible, even when I get the script and can’t imagine what I’m going to do with it.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn’t have any creative power, nothing. I don’t know that person any more.

Behind the ambitious, creative talent that is Hollywood lies a darker side of the entertainment industry little appreciated by the ordinary moviegoer. It’s an opaque world of film financing, revenue accretion, and minimal profit share.

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

Being a creative person, I’m naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I’m more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own.

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

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Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I’m on the move. I’m not creative when I’m jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It’s just such a great buzz.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I’m just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you’ll be.

Being on ‘Veep,’ it’s so much fun, and I get to put so much creative input in there, but at the end of the day, what they say, I do.

Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.

Berklee played a huge role in shaping my music. On an academic level, I learned a lot about vocal technique and culture. Since my major was Music Production and Engineering, I got a good handle on the technical and creative aspects of making a record.

Bob Harras’ personal and creative integrity is respected and renowned throughout the comic book industry. As an editor, he provides invaluable insight into storytelling and character.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they’re both very creative.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

Brazilians are very creative, not only in football but in life as well.

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

Bruce Springsteen really got any creative person’s dream career, and his good-heartedness and good-spiritedness are part of it: both because it made the people behind the scenes want to do their jobs that much better, but it also means that he connects with an audience in a way that holds them close.

Building a house is like producing a movie. There’s no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared – or it quickly becomes costly.

Business fascinates me. It’s very creative.

But life is tough and if you’re creative, it’s tougher.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It’s not about marketing.

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there’s an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I’m basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

By the time I came to the States, I really understood how a magazine works. I came to ‘Vogue’ as creative director, and three years later I went back to London to be editor in chief of British ‘Vogue.’

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a ‘new and improved’ form – and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied ‘host organisms’ into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.

Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creative, a scrambler, and certainly not to be underestimated.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

Chaos can be incredibly creative.

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It’s so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

Choreography is amazing. I’m still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.

Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

Clothing started as an armor for me. It was one of the ways that I protected myself from the world. It evolved into a form of creative expression.

Collaboration is a vital part of my creative life. I’ve had success with Guy Clark and Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.

Coming out of a group, it’s always really fun and creative to do your own thing.

Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?

Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn’t nothing, it was something – a very intelligent creative power of some sort.

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.

Computer science is not just for smart ‘nerds’ in hoodies coding in basements. Coding is extremely creative and is an integral part of almost every industry.

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

Craft is part of the creative process.

Creating and producing creative work, to me, those are all happy accidents.

Creating content on YouTube played a huge role in helping define myself, as making videos was and still is a creative outlet for me – a way to express myself.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

Creative Cloud is Adobe re-imagining itself amid a world of these three transformations – cloud, multiscreen and social computing – which are all happening at the same time.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

Creative content is challenging, no matter what, and animation is particularly challenging.

Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.

Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don’t want that.

Creative drives our business; the business doesn’t drive the creative.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn’t really exist in a Hollywood game.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion.

Creative instinct is personal.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.

Creative people are more emotionally charged, so I am a super sensitive person.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

Creative people feel huge ownership of our content; we want everything to be done ourselves. But in book writing, there’s a process: editors, PR people.

Creative people have no barriers. Ultimately, it’s connecting with human beings. There’s just one planet. I don’t see it as different countries.

Creative people who can’t help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Creative process gives me the most freedom because I can do anything I want on a piece of blank media.

Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all.

Creative projects are rarely the result of a single person’s efforts.

Creative satisfaction is highly underrated. When you don’t have it, the money doesn’t spend nearly as well.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.-Barbara Januszkiewicz

Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation’s S&T strategy.

Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.’

Creative work gives you an almost indissoluble connection with people.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That’s one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.

Criticism is part of the creative man’s journey, and I appreciate it.

Cultivating a global incubator network would help people from all backgrounds bring creative ideas to market and launch startups that generate more jobs – and would also align to the growing interest among youth for entrepreneurship.

Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.

Dating a creative pushes me to think outside the box.

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Design is a series of creative choices – it’s a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.

Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don’t personally design it, I’ll review it. I’m kind of creative director of the firm.

Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.

Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You’re writing for the public.

Do what is right… do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative – that’s important. Don’t follow what other people are doing.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Don’t make election popularity largely a matter of which candidate hires the most creative and effective propagandists. Insist that it be, instead, a running conversation with the public.

Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.

D’Antoni can be successful playing slow or fast because he is a bright guy who has very creative ideas.

Each creative choice you make has ‘x’ many impacts on budgetary choices, which in turn have ‘y’ many impacts on your subsequent creative choices. They feed each other.

Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn’t sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table, and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for. But it started around the time of ‘Tron,’ when I was really excited by the creative process and the prep that went into that. I spoke up often at those writing sessions.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

Emceeing has always been about making the most intellectual, most creative, wittiest rhyme as possible regardless of any subject. It was always about bringing the best out of yourself.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn’t ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that’s very important.

Essentially, it is the director who is the creative head of a film. The final authority on all decisions lies with the director. That is how it should be. And then other team members can give their creative inputs.

Etsy is fundamentally a creative community. On eBay, or Amazon for that matter, practically anyone can sell practically anything. On Etsy, you can only sell handmade goods, vintage goods over 20 years old, and craft supplies for making.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak – the highest I can be as an artist – I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting.

Even though I didn’t write ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz,’ I never felt left out of the creative process.

Even with the ‘Top Boy’ series with Ashley Walters… I’ve been talking like on the creative direction wave with Drake about the series. Making greatness with it. The whole style of what’s going on in London, the sound, is real. It’s an actual thing that actually happened. So it deserves to be on the telly.

Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn’t in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It’s almost like magic.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It’s part of the creative process.

Every so often, it’s time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the writing staff works.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Everybody in L.A. is a songwriter, producer, actor, creative. For some reason, you’re supposed to go to a bar and all hang out and act like you like each other. There is a lot of fake stuff that goes on.

Everybody involved in Pixar, I’ve not met one person who’s not incredibly creative and nice and lovely and know what they’re doing.

Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make ‘entertainment for everyone.’

Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.

Everyone has been in a social situation where you say something and it goes unnoticed, then someone else says the same thing and everyone laughs a lot. You learn how to be more creative and whacky and amusing.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

Everyone is super creative in the family.

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Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

Everything is creative. It’s all relative to me. No matter what, you’ve gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

Everything we do is designed, whether we’re producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it’s artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it’s artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients.

Facebook’s campus has a lot of creative spaces: an analogue print shop, a candy store. It’s a dynamic place and one of the best environments I’ve been in, period.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

Fashion design is an important part of the creative industry that means the most to women.

Fashion is fun, but it’s not that important, really, is it? It’s important to have other intellectual and creative interests.

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It’s the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.

Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

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Film shouldn’t be a pain. It’s a creative process.

Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.

Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it’s not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there’s a lot of people, there’s money, there’s a big machine to kind of make it – and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles – it’s international, it’s very positive, it’s inventive and creative.

Football players are creative when they’re in the moment.

For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.

For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job – so it’s great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.

For any creative person, along with learning, unlearning is also important.

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.

For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he’s another creative person who works as hard as I do.

For me to be creative, I have to have peace.

For me to do a project – I have a pretty successful solo career, so – for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

For me, I have trouble working with people just because I sort of have trust issues when it comes to creative endeavors.

For me, it’s always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. ‘Swingers’ is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

For the creative players, sometimes it is better that they are not under pressure.

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.

Frank Sobotka in ‘The Wire’ on HBO was one of the greatest characters I’ve ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There’s something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you’re done.

Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices – and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

Friends don’t necessarily made good business or creative partners.

From a creative perspective, we’ve been very fortunate in that doing it the ‘VGHS’ way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

From a gameplay standpoint, I’ve said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that’s really what I’m interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn’t doing something creative.

From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel’s universal reach.

Gabriel Diani has been my friend and collaborator for 14 years. He and Etta Devine are two of my favorite people and two of my favorite creative minds.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Given New York City’s cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Glasgow is an incredibly creative and culturally vibrant place.

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain’s to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.

Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as ‘smell good’ and for me it’s an essential. I have a sweetheart who’s extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful – as well as creative – in the smell department. The key, I’ve found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world – it’s really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I’m hooked.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg are fantastic producers and showrunners, and they lead a very, very positive, fun, creative environment to work in and to work with.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don’t have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

Growing up in Carol City, it was always a creative place for me to be because it was mad influential, especially going to Carol City High.

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

Hair color is just an expression of something different that you want to have, or something creative.

Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.

Hef is a man of the big picture. He is a creative force.

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that’s continually trying to erode that.

Hollywood’s like a warehouse. It’s just a place that you go. What’s interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved – not where you are put in prison.

How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.

I absolutely loved working with Tim Burton because he is just a creative, outside of the box thinker. How he does things is fantastic. It is different – weird different – and he does things that are groundbreaking. They are courageous to do and once you do them you are like, ‘Wow! That really does work!’

I admire people who are creative.

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I adore acting; it’s in my blood – quite literally – but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who will make it more compelling.

I always found creative ways to make money since I was pretty young kid.

I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew – any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don’t think about that. And that’s what every artist should think of – being creative and not just a puppet.

I always squirm when I read what’s called ‘creative nonfiction,’ and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.

I always try to do something different and creative with my dress sense.

I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I’m creative, it’s in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn’t do it for me. There’s no constraint.

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn’t feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

I am a bit of a dynamic personality and have the ability to use my vocabulary in some creative ways.

I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.

I am a creative person.

I am a Leo, and I love to be active and creative.

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

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I am very interested in behind the scenes, and I am very creative.

I am working with writers and producers to have a more proprietary relationship over shows, having more ownership and creative control.

I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 – all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors. I tried to create a Hitsville on the West Coast.

I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 – all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

I believe in creative visualization.

I believe in creative work.

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

I believe in the producers at Constantin, and I know that they have a really good taste level when it comes to the creative side.

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I’m always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who’s just getting into the business.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.

I called it ‘Historian’ because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.

I came to the realization that I can also satisfy my creative side by giving somebody else a chance. I don’t have to be in front of the camera for every project.

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one point, I came across Gus Dapperton in the back of my head when I was making music.

I can act… I do a little writing as well. And I’m good at typing. I’m a creative typist, actually.

I can be much more creative with my menus in the casino cities. In New York, there are certain things I can’t make. In Las Vegas, they’re much more receptive. Rabbit, some seafoods – they won’t necessarily do well in New York, but I’ll try them in Las Vegas, and they’ll be a success.

I can do a lot in 30 seconds. With Tattoo Liner I can do eyeliner, eyebrow, and, if I want to get creative, a lip look, too.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

I can play in any position in the attacking zone, but I don’t like to stick to the wing, for instance. I need to have freedom to move throughout the attacking and creative zone.

I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.

I can’t be a creative person if I’m a celebrity.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I certainly would not call myself creative. There are other coaches who are innovative and everything else. I wouldn’t be that guy, that’s for sure.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I… probably can’t!

I come from quite a creative family; everyone’s just doing their own thing!

I come from very creative parents.

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities – and go into the record business.

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn’t intrude on the creative part.

I definitely like creative, exciting adventures.

I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I’m always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn’t matter – just unique stuff.

I did a few movies, but the word ‘star’… I cannot compare to a star like Clint Eastwood. I used to call Clint ‘Larry Dickman’ when he would come to my show; then, he started using the name when he would go under cover in a ‘Dirty Harry’ movie. That’s why he’s a movie star… he’s so creative.

I did a guest thing on ‘My Name Is Earl,’ and there is something about being involved in a TV show that’s in the midst of its popularity that frees up the creative process.

I did an art foundation course, and I knew I wanted to do something in a creative field. And fashion just seemed like the most fun.

I did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the way. So that is part of the reason I love to read so much.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

I didn’t do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

I didn’t grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.

I didn’t originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

I didn’t really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I’d never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon – she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.

I didn’t set out to be a singer. Actually, the earliest creative efforts I made were drawings copied from comics we got every week at the newsagent, or rearranging photos I cut out and pasted in scrapbooks.

I didn’t take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I’ve gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.

I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.

I do creative visualisation techniques in the morning. It’s only 15 minutes. I used to do hours and hours of it, but I found that 15 minutes has really helped me, and it’s not time-consuming at all.

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the wild, passionate creative temperament.

I do like to be creative and I’m very lucky that I’ve been given different areas in which I’m able to do that – whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I’m also still into music and recording.

I do love being amongst creative people and facilitating that and being inspired by people. I get very bored with just competence and require inspiration all around me.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I do love doing action, but if I can balance the scale by doing other kinds of films that satisfy my creative ambitions, that feels really important.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It’s a creative liberty that I love.

I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a ‘blogger,’ as this is just one form of output for creative ideas.

I do not work well when I am in living in a cyclone of panic. I reject actively seeking out destabilization and suffering as a creative model.

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn’t move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

I do think it’s important, if you’re going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

I don’t believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

I don’t come from a creative background. I don’t know anyone in my family who is a musician or actor or singer. It’s a lot of teachers, lawyers. Professional stuff like that.

I don’t feel so alive if I’m not being creative.

I don’t fight creativity. I don’t fight against not being creative. If I’m not being creative, I’m not forcing it.

I don’t find touring very creative. There’s not much time to yourself with your instruments.

I don’t get why radio shows allow artists to do shows without creative control, without any art direction at all. Instead of that, I get their press guys, their camera guys to be my backdrop of my show.

I don’t know how much love David felt – I suspect very little. My main appeal to him was as a nurse, cook, housekeeper, creative ally, and business adviser.

I don’t know what the creative process is. I don’t know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.

I don’t like being locked in a cage on the creative scale. I need an outlet.

I don’t like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I don’t make money doing my podcast. I’ve learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them.

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I don’t need the bread, but it’s nice to do something creative.

I don’t put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and that is I like to build images and be a creative reader, and so I write that way.

I don’t really think of myself as a businessman at all. That’s why I have the ‘chief creative officer’ role.

I don’t see myself as necessarily a very creative person. I’m a technical guy.

I don’t think as big and as creative as Joss.

I don’t think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

I don’t think I’m particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.

I don’t think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

I don’t think there’s any show that really escapes it: It’s very rare that a creative producer stays with the show. As soon as the producer leaves, they cut the budget.

I don’t think we’re out there aggressively looking for deals. Our strategy is that business follows the creative. We’re not out there scouring the marketplace for opportunities.

I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.

I don’t want to be trending. Instead of pursuing ideas of being more radio-friendly and… commercial, I want to go harder at being more creative.

I don’t want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

I dreamed of being like Kaka, and Brazil was the home of that creative style, which the Brazilians call ginga.

I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.

I enjoy being creative.

I enjoy being in control, having a lot of creative control.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

I feel like a lot of creative people are socially awkward.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I feel like I’m a creative, and I want to take advantage of that.

I feel like I’m one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I’m going to be here for a while.

I feel like I’m the most creative when I’m bored.

I feel like I’ve been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

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I feel like that’s what being creative is: It’s you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.

I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative… and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.

I feel like ‘Birds in the Trap’ seem united; it’s just metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can’t get their creative idea out.

I feel more comfortable in a place like Brighton – a town, with one centre, one bus station, one train station. And there are so many arty, creative people, and things are less rushed, less stressed.

I feel really relevant and creative, and I don’t think I would’ve made an album if I didn’t feel relevant. I wouldn’t have said a word.

I feel responsible; I feel I’ve got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

I feel, as I get older and now a father, I try to be a little more conscious of the things I would say and do. I try to be more creative as opposed to using a cheap word, cursing, or something vulgar to get a reaction.

I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It’s precise, and you don’t have to kill anything.

I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts – literally creation!

I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it’s such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.

I find some collections to be more vibrant than others, but the designers who last are those who are able to continue to be creative within the mold they have cast, usually right at the beginning of their careers.

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn’t particularly helpful.

I found that pottering is very conducive to my creative process, so now, I find myself being incredibly creative because I’ve got such much to procrastinate with.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I get deep into the creative aspect, and Nick is the people person.

I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.

I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I’ve had as an actor on ‘Mr. Robot.’ I think there’s a wide opportunity for actors to do that now more so than ever on television.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

I get very creative when I’m trapped in a plane and I can’t do anything else.

I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night – that’s when those creative juices begin flowing.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

I got out of college and I went to get my master’s in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor’s Workshop, being abused as a intern.

I got to the point of insanity, but I also got out, but during the insane times, I felt invincible, and I felt creative and wonderful, too, but I was also hiding something.

I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They’re all artists; they’re creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I’m not impressed with Hollywood.

I grew up in a really small town: LaGrange, Georgia. There weren’t a lot of creative outlets there, so I did local castings.

I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers – it wasn’t a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.

I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew – I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively.

I guess when you’re holding the creative reins, you can be across everything, and it’s more authentic. You can control it.

I had a fascination with the back side of the business, and the creative process always fascinated me. Vince gave me an opportunity in ’98 to sit in the production meetings. He would talk creative with me, and we had this creative rapport.

I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.

I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we’ll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became ‘A Life Apart.’

I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn’t listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn’t even considered it.

I had to learn how to work in a studio at first because it’s a totally different creative environment to the ‘bedroom recordings’ I’d done before, where I could translate my own ideas without having to explain them to anyone.

I had zero exposure to creative in WCW up until 1993, 1994. Even then, I was at a distance.

I have a lot of vintage, so my style is pretty eclectic of different time periods and styles. I would describe it as comfortable, creative, and vintage.

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing – I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I’m able to accomplish.

I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.

I have a very creative mind, and I’m always looking for new stuff and new things.

I have a very, very creative family.

I have an art magazine about drag called ‘Velour,’ named after myself, and I have a monthly show called ‘Nightgowns’ that curates and presents some of the most creative and high-quality drag in a professional theater setting.

I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn’t work with the song I was currently composing.

I have complete creative freedom. If I want to put a song on the album, there’s no one stopping me.

I have creative ADD.

I have creative energy in me that needs to come out one way or another, but that’s where Revamp comes in.

I have found that nurturing our creative side feeds all aspects of one’s life and those around us in a positive way.

I have known Tiffany R. Warren for many years, and we have always shared the goal to promote diversity and inclusion in the creative industries.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I’m working on a clothing line, too.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

I have no great interest in being remembered as a great creative filmmaker.

I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

I have to be creative to be happy.

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I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn’t come into work.

I have to have some kind of creative outlet; otherwise, I’m hell to be around.

I haven’t done many commercials, and I’m very picky about it because it comes down to creative control.

I haven’t thought about getting into production. I’m interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

I hope that I’ll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.

I hope what’s different for not only the channel ‘It’s Grace’ 2014, but for the brand overall, is I hope to continue to expand into other areas of creative content and original content. We have ‘Camp Takota’ coming out on Valentine’s Day – we’re all so pumped for it! It’s so exciting!

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I just believe that in Atlanta, we’re creative; we got a lot of styles out here.

I just don’t think it’s good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.

I just like being versatile, giving new styles and being creative.

I just love his creativity; that’s what I’m talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

I just want to be able to be creative.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn’t want to give creative control to overseas ’cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you’re sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn’t matter who comes up with the ideas, it’s a collaboration.

I keep a creative group around me.

I keep my mind on track, and I don’t get mad, and I don’t get frustrated. Well, I do… but creative work, it’s a way of controlling all that.

I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don’t organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.

I kinda went back to that period between ’88 and ’94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn’t know how.

I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don’t necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It’s not the best choice for creative writing.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

I know what I love about acting – and it’s the creative process.

I know what I’m like when I don’t have a project coming up, and that’s the mode I’m almost more comfortable in. That’s when I get really scrappy and creative.

I learned at a young age that we were going to have to be personable, going to have to be marketable, and going to have to be creative in order to have a race team.

I learned I’m not a good executive, I’m an entrepreneur and I’m creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it’s all sort of one big mess of creative output.

I left the University of Chicago’s creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It’s fun. I like being creative, and it’s a creative process.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It’s really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles.

I like being creative.

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I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I’d just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

I like Ben Stein. I think he’s funny, creative, and an insightful commentator on a host of issues.

I like change, like anybody. You don’t want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you’re doing the same thing.

I like creative players and players who do different things.

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

I like films that probe emotional questions and inspire you to get creative and get writing, get draping, painting, cooking, whatever that thing is where you have that kind of output.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

I like people with conviction, who are in control of themselves. I’m not interested in working with a designer who hires a creative director.

I like people. Listen, if you’re a hotelier, if you’re a creative person, and you’re working with the things that I do, then you have to like people; otherwise, you simply can’t get anywhere.

I like stand-up. I’ve done it since I was a teenager, so it’s kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

I like to be creative and I’m lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I’m lucky that I get to use them.

I like to be creative.

I like to be doing something creative.

I like to be in locations that I kind of feel are very creative, that stimulate me in a creative process.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.

I like to think of myself as a creative player.

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I’ve got a brain; I don’t want to just sit at home – I want to do as much as I can.

I like trying to be creative.

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I’m forced to be creative.

I like working with creative people who are receptive to new ideas, who want to do things that are different, who want to create films of a different mould.

I like ‘Sponge Bob’ and ‘The Last Airbender.’ I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.

I liked being active. I liked being creative.

I liked school. I was creative and artistic and fit into most groups.

I listen to Emmylou Harris. She’s my favorite. I don’t know why, but I just feel more creative with her playing.

I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more freedom to determine the course of their lives, their jobs, their creative works, and their identities over the course of a decade. Much of this increased freedom is thanks to economic engagement by the West.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do – tell the story with images. I can’t wait to see what they do.

I love art in general – architecture, anything creative.

I love being creative in all forms.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

I love being creative.

I love being creative.

I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.

I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.

I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it’s really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.

I love creative people.

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I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I’m already in.

I love getting into people’s brains and understanding the creative impetus for something.

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn’t be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

I love Janet Jackson and her creative set design.

I love marketing a lot, and I’m very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns.

I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I’m taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

I love San Francisco more than any other city outside of Seattle, but I’ve seen it go from a vibrant, creative community to a playground for tech bros.

I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I love the creative process – brainstorming and coming up with campaigns.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

I love the creative process. That’s always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

I love to be creative.

I love to cook, and I’ve just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it’s the best way to stay creative.

I love to do glam. But I also love a lot of creative, outside-of-the-box stuff.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music.

I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we’re all excavating and trying to find something.

I minored in creative writing in college, and I’ve played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.

I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.

I need to be creative all the time.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

I never considered writing as a career – it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

I never got close to the creative in AWA; not only was I not close to it, I wasn’t allowed to be in a room close to it when they were talking about creative. That is how tightly held Verne Gagne believed in kayfabing people who he didn’t believe needed to be in the process.

I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I’m just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it’s not separated.

I never took creative writing.

I never wanted to be a creative director.

I never wanted to be famous; that was not my dream. I just like being creative.

I now find magic in the mundane. I’m also more creative – better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

I often speak publicly, and when I do, I also get to listen to other presenters. The most memorable are the ones that hit an emotional chord with a tight story and a punch line. No fluff. Keep it creative and concise. Greatness exists in quality, not quantity.

I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.

I operate best on big vision and creative detail.

I paint; I draw and paint – I’ve been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

I pretty much spent my twenties as a musician and taking acting classes. I loved it. I was at UCLA getting As and Bs in English and creative writing, basically trying to stay out of the Army. All I really wanted to do was play music.

I pride myself in collaborating and being a creative director, and creative direction isn’t putting my opinion first. It’s supporting an artist so they get the most out of the project.

I reached a place where I wanted to make more music, but I didn’t know what I wanted. So I stopped labeling music by genre and just got into a studio to be creative. Now I write whatever feels instinctive.

I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed and was a potentially successful career path.

I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I had to do it while I was still young and had an appetite for risk.

I realize that ‘Postcards’ was like input, and ‘Ghostwriting’ was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. ‘Postcards’ was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while ‘Ghostwriting’ was relieving myself.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

I realized I need to work. I need to be creative. As much as I have angst and anxiety, when I’m idle, it’s even more. I have to keep moving. Otherwise, I catch up with myself.

I realized I probably wouldn’t make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like ‘Godfather’ or ‘Apocalypse.’

I really am into crystals. I’m a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

I really don’t have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects.

I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative.

I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what’s fresh.

I really like Los Angeles – I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I’m between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like ‘Julian Po,’ or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

I really love being a part of the creative process. I love having an opinion that gets heard, and then it’s all up for discussion.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I really respect the Coen brothers as directors and as creative individuals and with the way that they handle the industry and the business side of things.

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren’t real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

I see myself as an interpretative actor rather than a creative one.

I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren’t: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world.

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.

I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.

I shy away from the word ‘creation.’ In the ordinary, social meaning of the word – well, it’s very nice, but fundamentally, I don’t believe in the creative function of the artist. He’s a man like any other.

I spend time on campaign creation and implementation, anything from sitting down with the agency or with creative companies. I also meet with supporters. We’ve been really lucky to have various high-profile supporters.

I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.

I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.

I started my career because if I’d have done anything else, I would regret it. I truly feel this career chose me more than I chose it. I would say that it’s for something greater than me with a little of the creative fulfillment that comes with it splashed in there.

I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I’ve also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.

I stay away from the arts… writing songs, being creative – those are downloads from God. You can’t do data analytics on art.

I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.

I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn’t have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.

I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.

I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that’s when I wrote ‘Kids.’

I suddenly realised, hey, I’m not a lazy idiot, I’m an idler! It’s something to aspire to, it’s part of the creative process! That’s fantastic!

I suppose I’m happy to sell my time and energy, but I’m not happy to sell my initial creative time.

I surrounded myself with a lot of different creative people and ambitious people.

I take a massage each week. This isn’t an indulgence, it’s an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I’m more of a creative guy. I can’t get into minute details.

I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you’re basically trying to ‘solve’ the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don’t know how to be creative.

I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.

I think any person who is starting out in a creative endeavor is not going to be good at it right out of the gate.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I’m happy.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that’s been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

I think Berry Gordy is a genius, I really do, and it’s not a word I throw around lightly. But with all that comes the idiosyncratic behavior of a self-made, talented, creative person, and that’s not easy to come up against.

I think caring too much about the economics starts affecting the creative aspect of the film. That is a dangerous process for a filmmaker. He should make his film without having to worry about how much it has cost or how much it will be sold for.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.

I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood.

I think I would’ve found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you’re creative, you find something, eventually.

I think if you are creative then it’s an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

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I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

I think it is very important to learn to say ‘No.’ I think it is sometimes important for brands or the creative director to learn to say, ‘This might be on trend, but it is not right for us.’

I think it’s bad to talk about one’s present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

I think it’s being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else’s record. To me, that doesn’t show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

I think it’s necessary to let kids get bored once in a while – that’s how they learn to be creative.

I think it’s really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

I think it’s really important, as an actor in this business, to have another creative outlet.

I think I’m always writing, and I’m always working, and I’m always trying to be creative. It’s just something that I do all the time. I watch TV, and I’ll play guitar.

I think I’m most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.

I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don’t come up with the stories.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it’s important to recognize when you’re in that valley so you can get back out and get back to that peak.

I think television goes through phases, like other creative arts, where suddenly a group of people are producing exciting work all at once.

I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.

I think that it’s important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it’s a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do.

I think that those elements – light and sound – are beyond democratic. They’re into the creative part of life.

I think that what I’m interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

I think that’s what fiction writing is actually all about. It’s about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.

I think the best voices, the most creative voices, and the best content always wins.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don’t have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

I think the ’70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.

I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.

I think there’s a tendency with actor/directors to imagine themselves playing every part and trying to get people to follow their rhythm, their tempo, their pace. I’ve learned now to just love being at the center of this creative swirl.

I think there’s no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that’s part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.

I think there’s something really freeing about improv, that it’s a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That’s really exciting and really frustrating, because it’s there and gone. There’s an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.

I think there’s something really freeing about improv, that it’s a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That’s really exciting and really frustrating, because it’s there and gone.

I think we Chinese are just as capable, as diligent, as hardworking, as peace-loving, and as creative as people everywhere.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

I think when you’re being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

I think whenever you have a product you are always trying to improve it. Whether it is a commercial project out on the market or it’s a creative collaboration, you are always looking to keep you audiences more engaged.

I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it – I teach creative writing. And even though it’s mostly women in the room, they’re not often – or they didn’t used to be the ones who went on to publish books. I know this sounds like a tautology, but encouragement is the key.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.

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I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I’ve sort of never looked back from there.

I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!

I truly believe that everyone can be creative; you just need to find your form of expression.

I try to find creative ways to put ideas out to make the ground fertile for organizers.

I used to go and hang out at Patricia Field’s store when it was on 8th street before it moved downtown. Amanda Lepore would be there, and I would be obsessed with the shoes and the make-up – everything. I just knew it was a creative place that I wanted to be around.

I used to put flyers on cars in parking lots, anything to get people to come to my shows. I was always having to think outside the box, and even to this day, I still try and come up with creative ways to market my shows.

I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I’m constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don’t work too hard and get exhausted.

I very much love Los Angeles, and I love working here. I find it very inspiring and very creative, and some of the best crews are in Los Angeles.

I want a performance style that’s more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

I want a space for people to feel safe and be creative. Actors want it, too. They want to feel like they’re listened to, and they’re safe to experiment.

I want people to continue to be creative and to value creativity.

I want people to think I’m a creative genius.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don’t ever want to have to compromise; I don’t ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don’t ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it’s doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games – all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.

I want to be creative, to get on the ball, to play.

I want to be known internationally as one of the most creative real estate developers in low-income communities. I want to be known as someone who actually promotes economic diversity and does a great job.

I want to collaborate with people and be a part of a creative community.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

I want to do some bigger films, so long as there’s some sort of exciting creative element or a good filmmaker behind them.

I want to do something creative, not just easy.

I want to feel creative when I’m working. I don’t want to just work for the sake of working.

I want to inspire Asian kids to become more artistic and creative rather than feeling that they have to be academic or whatever.

I want to make sure that I sign dope artists, old and new, just to make sure that we come up with something new and creative.

I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a creative person, I will choose to be limitless in the extension models of my various ideas on design.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

I wanted to have a creative director crazy enough to say, ‘Sure, I’ll do a collection in five days.’

I wanted to make films since I was young. My background had nothing to do with anything creative, so it seemed an impossible task.

I wanted to start creating opportunities for actors out there that weren’t so cut-and-dried… My ultimate goal with Outlier is to give these young creatives and young creative hustlers the opportunity to leave their fingerprint on the world.

I was a creative kid; I wasn’t really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It’s like a religion down there.

I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it’s better to be a lion than a lamb.

I was a huge pop music fan as a kid, but the bands I was into were like 5ive and N-Sync. It was like watching a cartoon. There was so much going on, and the production was so well mixed. Stevie Wonder was able to give you those melodies and production but back it up with such creative integrity and real musicianship and artistry.

I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I’ve written fiction, but I couldn’t get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won’t buy it.

I was a product of Andy Warhol’s Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

I was always in love with the idea of making music – and always wanted to be involved in either the creative side or the industry side.

I was always interested in creative writing growing up. From junior high on, I was writing short stories. I also grew up watching movies. My father would take me to everything. Most weeks, I could open the paper having seen every movie listed.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

I was brought up to be uncompromisingly bloody-minded by my mother. She equipped me, without knowing it, to be someone who is creative rather than an entertainer. Not many girls are brought up like that, to never rely on a man. To not be a housewife, not be a mother.

I was full time on ‘Party of Five’ for one year, then more like a creative consultant for two years, where I was in the writing rotation but didn’t have to go in every day or cover the set until midnight.

I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it’s just that the acting thing worked out.

I was in Austin on 9/11, and there were no flights, so I couldn’t get to New York to cover the story, so I had to find more creative ways.

I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn’t really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.

I was just a very creative kid.

I was kind of a spastic, creative kid.

I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn’t in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.

I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I’ve always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

I was seven years old when my grandmother stated teaching me to sew, and she always encouraged me to be creative.

I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was… appalling… always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

I was the only person at Univision who had complete creative control of my own show, by contract. They didn’t like that. I was the executive producer; I owned the studio where we taped. I decided who went on my show and who didn’t.

I wasn’t creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.

I wasn’t in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

I went into academia thinking that there’d be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.

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I went to a very academic school, but I never really quite… I think because not that many people were particular creative or arty, I felt a little bit different.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne’s that’s a really kind of creative hot bed.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

I went to see ‘The Piano’ with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn’t focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

I wonder if it is Australia’s great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I’ve ended up doing that myself.

I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn’t being made.

I worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families – and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids.

I worked with the best – Givenchy, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent – and it gave me an ability to be confident. It turned me into a CEO and a creative director and a brand.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

I would love to be a creative offensive consultant where I could help design and help create plays and ways to attack other teams without having the coaching schedule.

I would love to write more children’s books. There is such a high standard out there for children’s books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.

I would never undermine a person’s interpretation of a creative work.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

I would say that what we called the Pixar sensibility goes back even further. It is kind of a CalArts sensibility because so many of the people who are creative instrumental people at Pixar came from that school.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it’s such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I wouldn’t ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn’t do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.

I wouldn’t be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

I wouldn’t suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I’ve definitely noticed a pattern of being ‘creative.’

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

I wrote my novel ‘Bitter Greens’ as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.

If he’s a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

If I am with one person, I am very talkative, and personable. I will talk your ear off, but if there is another person interjected, I get so awkward. I am like the awkward one in those situations, but I feel like a lot of creative people are.

If I get a commission, it’s like a flood of creative thought and energy.

If I have a message to send, I’m going to send it in the most creative and yet crazy way I can.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

If I see something new, I’d be like, ‘Ooh, I want to do that.’ The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

If I wasn’t an actress I’d definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn’t be able to write, for I would become too jaded to be able to view the existing situation objectively.

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.

If I’m out of town and I’m in a situation where I have to be creative, it has to be hot dogs because that’s my comfort food.

If no one’s doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

If we live in a perpetual state of outrage, Trump wins. Because when we become depleted and exhausted and sapped of our energy, we’re not as resourceful, creative, or effective.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children’s mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

If we want our nuclear stockpile to truly serve the interests of our country in a strategic, balanced manner, we have to change course. That means pursuing creative options such as reducing the weapons held in reserve.

If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it’s making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

If you become a creative writer with the idea that you are going to make a whole lot of money, then maybe this isn’t the best choice for you.

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

If you come into any creative project without questions, you’re gonna bore yourself, and it’ll show on the page.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

If you have somebody who’s brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

If you have the ideas, and you’re a creative person, then you don’t really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

If you look at any creative person’s work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That’s what an artist does.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

If you want something bad enough, and you’re having enough fun doing it, you can accomplish it. You just got to get creative and find a way.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you’ve got to get away from the norm. You’ve got to go for it.

If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody’s paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it’s certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.

If you write memoir, it can’t be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

If your child has something creative they really want to do, it’s up to you, their parent, to help make that happen.

If you’re a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it’s always shifting.

If you’re a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.

If you’re a young actor, unless you’re on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

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If you’re actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you’ll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

If you’re applying for a creative position, don’t be afraid to get a little creative on your resume.

If you’re clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.

If you’re doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial – even if what you’re doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn’t have to be trivial.

If you’re smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

If you’re trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it’s rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we’ve had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

In all the stuff I do, I really like it most when I’m being creative and collaborative, working with people who have my kind of energy around me.

In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.

In Atlanta, there’s no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country of few but nonetheless good films, it is almost impossible to produce a film without access to various European initiatives and funds. Creative Europe and its media program are essential for our film industry.

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

In Hollywood, there’s a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

In my comedy, I’m not always trying to say something, but when I’m playing a creepy dude, you’re laughing because you know that creepy dude. You’ve heard that dude say something awful, and I’m just putting a little creative spin on it.

In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock’s greatest shapeshifters.

In my family, it was always encouraged to become a creative person. I became a doula instead, then I married an actor, and my sisters became famous almost overnight.

In my office, I have the creative things that kids have made for me over the years. The nice thing about the physical side of life is that I can have them on my shelf.

In my own case, I’m an artist, and I’m really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity. I want people to discover themselves as actors, as creative actors, by having interactive experiences.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making ‘Star Trek.’ But most of the time, I don’t think about it.

In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

In politics, it’s very theatrical. There’s a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

In television, the 60-minute series, ‘The Wire’ and ‘Mad Men’ and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

In terms of the creative side of it, it’s really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.

In the creative community, there’s no excuse for not making a more equitable environment.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger – a thought, idea, line, plot device – anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It’s like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They’re also very rare.

In the early days, I was everything to David. I was his creative partner, his lover, his soul mate.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that’s great.

In TV writing, Armando Iannucci’s satire ‘The Thick of It’ is brilliant – equal parts hysterically funny, terrifyingly believable, and Oh-my-God-I-can’t-believe-he-actually-said-that – and it’s got the most satisfyingly creative insults ever.

In ‘Ratatouille,’ there are two different themes that express the two sides of Remy’s personality: the creative side: the chef, and the ‘thief’ side: his nature as a mouse.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative liberties in terms of chronology to suit the story.

Instagram really gives me a chance to be creative.

Instead of silencing artists, is it possible that antidepressants can actually help them vocalize their creative ambitions?

Instead of worrying about potential disruption, brands can be creative societal disruptors – because their consumers will be right there by their side as committed partners in a better life.

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

It can no longer be an afterthought in a child’s development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative side. That the creative side can be pushed aside and we just push the analytical side. Especially with the development of a child’s brain at the elementary levels.

It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It’s like in wartime with rations – people became more inventive with cooking.

It doesn’t matter if they’re famous or not – I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that’s the most important thing for me.

It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you’re a pawn in the system.

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It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

It is none of anyone’s business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

It is such a treat to see two of my most favourite creative people in one frame – Rajamouli sir and Amitabh sir. They are so inspiring.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

It is unhealthy to live in an environment where every aspect of our culture requires a great sort, where creative talents are for some but not for all, and where performing for the president of the United States becomes a point of regular and significant controversy.

It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

It is very important that people see there is a bright future, and we can re-engage that entrepreneurial spirit of the trading nation for which the U.K. has always been known – that dynamic, creative spirit.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

It may be tripe, but it’s my tripe – and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

It never felt like we were making a ‘Star Wars’ movie. It didn’t feel like it was serious. It just felt like we were allowed to be creative and kind of goof off.

It seems like music gets put in this hub where you have to rap about this, and the minute you do something else, it’s like you changing. Nah, I’m being creative.

It seems obvious to say, but I really admire the creative sides of Steve Jobs.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

It takes a level of creative depression to hear ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ and weep.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the ’30s and ’40s, and now it’s like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin’ it out there.

It was a very creative atmosphere in my family, for sure.

It was my dream to start my creative journey with a Marathi play, but sadly nothing materialised. So, I took up some good English plays that were offered to me.

It was part of being a girl in the ’60s that you were creative.

It was when I got to NXT with Dusty Rhodes, being the creative force he was, and told us to bring our most creative side every single week. One of those weeks, I brought the guitar and started telling stories while I played, and it just evolved from there.

It’s a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.

It’s always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

It’s an incredibly supportive and friendly field. Older people want to foster and help younger people. Which is not true of all creative fields, but it is true of comics, and it is true of radio.

It’s an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

It’s cool how to see how my creative juices have shown themselves when they’re not being used for ‘Euphoria’ every day. I’m trying to find a new rhythm as to how I’m going to externalize my artistic energies. It’s a moment of re-formation.

It’s easier to destroy than it is to create, but I’ve always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.

It’s fun being creative and that’s satisfying.

It’s funny, because I sometimes feel that I’m most creative when I’m pregnant.

It’s good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

It’s got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.

It’s great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.

It’s happy and secure people who the are most creative.

It’s hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

It’s just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are – who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.

It’s like everybody is shooting something, and everybody’s a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is – for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good – is how do they get attention to it?

It’s much easier to see my son involved in creative than to see my daughter in the ring. But they’ve both worked really hard. I’m really proud of both of them.

It’s nice to have a variety in creative work that I like to do.

It’s not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

It’s not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It’s more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

It’s now widely recognised that a diverse research group is usually stronger, more creative, and more robust and flexible. Such a group usually copes better in a downturn.

It’s only a very small percentage of creative thinking that ends up connecting with a wider audience, and even then, any success is quite unpredictable.

It’s possible that Generation Facebook, accustomed as it is to a whole range of experiences that it only imbibes online, doesn’t have the same need for physical interaction in order to be creative as previous generations still do. It’s possible that Generation Facebook can co-create and collaborate quite happily from afar.

It’s rare to find a corporate partner who encourages true creativity, but our meetings with Lionsgate’s creative team convinced us that this is the right move for RocketJump and our millions of fans.

It’s really a testament to my parents, because I was active, curious and creative as a child, and my parents nurtured that. But I wouldn’t say that I was a professional child actor at all. I was never the breadwinner of my family.

It’s really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

It’s really hard to go into a creative process and not think, ‘I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.’

It’s really the rare creator who can tell you where he’s going to end the season of 22 episodes. That’s not bad. That’s part of the creative exploration.

It’s so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher ‘House of Cards,’ and he can do whatever he wants – Netflix doesn’t say, ‘Oh, you can’t do that,’ or, ‘We need a subplot here about this.’ It’s pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.

It’s such an enormously challenging process to make any kind of television. It’s stressful and works towards getting the best out of creative people.

It’s the best thing, when you are in a creative space, discovering something and being enamored with it and excited by it.

It’s the business of movies, it’s the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it’s the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It’s just not that fun.

It’s the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process – which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

It’s up to the person who’s being creative to find ways to emerge and shake up the world of wealth.

It’s very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there’s no creative crop to harvest.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

It’s very important when you in the studio to be with a confident creative.

It’s very joyful to be in a productive, creative mood, but I find a lot of joy in learning and being told stories.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

It’s very tough when two creative people are together.

It’s what’s missing, I think, from most music – the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.

I’d always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren’t famous.

I’d be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means… Yeah, authentic and creative.

I’d like to make something about someone who hasn’t existed so that I don’t have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

I’d like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

I’d like to think I inspire young people to be creative.

I’d like to think I’m an attacking creative midfielder who can assist with goals.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I’d only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control.

I’d want to start being a creative director of a specific line, like Adidas, for example. If they called me up to collaborate on something, I would do it.

I’m a bat. All my greatest, creative ideas come at night. So I hardly ever sleep.

I’m a big people watcher and a people talker. The beautiful thing about being an artist and a creative person is that you can get an idea from anywhere, and I’m always on the hunt for them.

I’m a bit of a night owl because that’s when I feel the most creative and alive.

I’m a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

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I’m a creative comedic entertainer who enjoys bringing good content to the world. I’m not Big Shaq – Shaq is his own person.

I’m a creative consultant, whatever that means.

I’m a creative guy, a designer, a customer.

I’m a creative guy, artistically with graphics.

I’m a creative guy. And I only do businesses as a result of like I’ve – I’m try to find what my gifts are and give them immediately. As soon as I get them and I understand, I give them back.

I’m a creative person, and I’m gonna be creative, so whoever’s upset because of that, that’s too bad.

I’m a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

I’m a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.

I’m a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.

I’m a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

I’m a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

I’m a little insane, and I’m going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

I’m a lot more creative than people can imagine.

I’m a very creative person in general. I like to create stuff in my downtime off the court.

I’m a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn’t know why.

I’m a very improvisational cook. I sort of like to make things up as I go along. I’m quite creative in the kitchen.

I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.

I’m a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It’s true: I have a master’s degree in creative writing, I’ve published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.

I’m alive today, I’m well, I’m working, I’m still creative. What more can I say, really?

I’m all about risque – I love that stuff. I love to be creative – that’s what the entertainment business is about.

I’m already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You’re in a vacuum if you don’t have a certain amount of fame.

I’m always around creative people, and I’m trying to work on something constantly at all times.

I’m always creative.

I’m always flattered when people on the far Left manufacture a new version of being ‘offended.’ They can be quite creative in finding something that hurts their feelings.

I’m always looking for the creative spark. Always.

I’m always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren’t possible.

I’m an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don’t imagine I’ll abandon that completely.

I’m attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there’s no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

I’m born into the cycle of giving that we’re all born into, and I recognize it. So just because something is a good business, I’m not a business guy. I’m a creative guy.

I’m creative so I’m always gonna create.

I’m creative; I’m not re-creative.

I’m definitely picky about what projects I take on. They have to be things I’m passionate about. I actually get to be creative when it comes to my mobile game. It’s really cool.

I’m excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

I’m fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.

I’m from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative.

I’m generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

I’m grateful to the creative allies behind ‘UnReal’ who are willing to stand behind disenfranchised communities of people worldwide and help to tell their stories.

I’m heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with ‘Glee’ and then practice with LXD till about midnight.

I’m impressed with how the NBA, as a whole, is dressing so well. Guys are being very creative and having fun with it.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

I’m interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

I’m irrational about all things creative, and I’m always late!

I’m like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product.

I’m lucky to have met Nicolas Ghesquiere, the creative director of Vuitton. He understands me and knows me, and I admire his sensibility and talent. Karl Lagerfeld is another huge designer and artist for whom I feel affection and admiration.

I’m lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.

I’m mad creative for acting.

I’m more user-experience and technology-minded. James is good at knowing what the user is going to buy, and the creative world he’s buying them into.

I’m my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That’s the way I’ve always been.

I’m never happier than when I’m being creative, whether that’s with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

I’m nocturnal when it comes to recording – I’m just more creative at night.

I’m not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you’re there to do, which is make a movie.

I’m not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

I’m not an executive. I’m a creative person.

I’m not artistic nor am I all that creative.

I’m not in it for the money. No, no. I like to run a business that’s successful… I’m a very creative person.

I’m not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

I’m not one of those guys who walks around with a flip phone who doesn’t want to be connected. There are times when I’m tech-friendly, and there are times when I personally do want to shut everything off because I’m more creative when I shut off.

I’m not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.

I’m not that knowledgeable with the guitar – I just find ways that are pretty creative, but it’s all within the framework and the limitations of what I can do.

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I’m not there to tailor the role to me: I’m there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I’m guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.

I’m not very good at business. I’m more of a creative, fun-loving hippie type.

I’m obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.

I’m often asked how I write books, but I don’t think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was ‘I tend to make it up as I go along.’ I’m not sure that’s brilliant advice.

I’m probably not creative or talented enough to create an especially compelling piece of content, but I really do enjoy watching a great movie or TV show.

I’m proud to be a member of the creative class, particularly here in Atlanta where the entertainment and creative industries form such an integral part of our economy, our culture, and our community.

I’m really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They’ve been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don’t always hear about. That’s why I didn’t want to sign originally with a major label.

I’m really excited for the future, and I’m a very extremely creative person.

I’m really happy with everything that I’ve been fortunate enough to do and with the creative outlets I’ve been blessed to have.

I’m really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That’s the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don’t take it for granted. I try to make the most of it.

I’m sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it’s true. Advertising sucks. Guys like me and Bob Gage and certainly Bill Bernbach and two or three other guys, we exemplified and led the creative revolution.

I’m sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it’s all going according to plan and some weeks where you’re super frustrated.

I’m sure our brains are working unconsciously. When you have a creative thought, it’s parts of the brain talking to each other without your awareness.

I’m surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.

I’m thankful for weird people out there ’cause they’re some of the most creative people.

I’m the culinary and creative consultant for The Water Club.

I’m trying to do more inverts and corked-out rotations that you don’t see at the girls’ level. I want to be more creative.

I’m trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It’s popular music: it’s everything for everybody.

I’m used to being in creative environments where people throw out a lot of ideas.

I’m very creative – making music, making puppets, that’s my thing – but mainstream success and the demands that brings? No, not really for me.

I’m very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There’s a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I’ve always felt a little shy with it.

I’m very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

I’m wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.

I’ve always appreciated a creative approach to action, doing things that people don’t expect, tweaking things to make them different.

I’ve always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn’t until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

I’ve always been a creative person, and I’d always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

I’ve always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn’t have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.

I’ve always been ambitious. I’ve always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative.

I’ve always been creative, I think.

I’ve always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

I’ve always been the person who has needed a creative outlet.

I’ve always felt like there was less creative space on sets with guardians. I just felt independent at a young age.

I’ve always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I’m making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

I’ve always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I’ve always had creative freedom. Instrumental rock wasn’t really a genre, but the success of ‘Surfing With the Alien’ legitimized my approach.

I’ve always liked technical, creative central midfielders with the capacity to score goals, such as David Silva, Samir Nasri, and Santi Cazorla.

I’ve avoided situations where I wouldn’t have creative freedom.

I’ve been living the American Dream for over 25 years – just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It’s incredible.

I’ve been reading a lot about Silicon Valley history recently and was struck by just how core the lack of unions has been to the American tech industry’s evolution. It’s enabled the constant creative destruction that keeps Silicon Valley relevant and thriving in a rapidly changing world.

I’ve been using carrot tops to make pesto and broccoli stalks to make broccoli ‘rice.’ There’s no reason to throw those things away – just get creative.

I’ve been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they’re giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.

I’ve been very lucky to work with great filmmakers. But I think my days of just freely acting regularly, that being my sole creative fulfillment, are gone.

I’ve been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people’s desires.

I’ve come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.

I’ve come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society – and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.

I’ve experienced a lot of creative freedom because I’m on a family label. It was nice to put out what I wanted to say and do what I wanted to do.

I’ve gone places where they’ve told me what I need to do, what I need to say, who I need to be, what moves I need to perform. And at Impact I get to just be me. I have creative control to be me and do what I want.

I’ve got more creative control when I do music.

I’ve had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.

I’ve had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn’t going to talk about it.

I’ve had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn’t really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically.

I’ve had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It’s infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

I’ve had the thought that a person’s ‘artistic vision’ is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life – even if some of those might appear contradictory.

I’ve hidden behind the camera my whole life because I much, much, much prefer shooting. Being behind the camera is my safe space, and it’s my creative space, too.

I’ve never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.

I’ve never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That’s just not really my personality. I’m comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

I’ve never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.

I’ve now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.

I’ve only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

I’ve seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails.

I’ve spent a lot of time encouraging, corralling, protecting, and sparring with creative people.

I’ve taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn’t, but I don’t regret any of them because you can’t possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don’t.

I’ve worked with some of the greatest filmmakers in the history of the medium, and they all have something in common: a quality that is creative, comfortable, and thoughtful.

James Corden is a rare entertainment force who combines irresistible charm, warmth, and originality with a diverse range of creative instincts and performance talent.

Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I’ve watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they’re all creative.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is something that is very necessary for the creative process. There’s a couple of brothers running around New York, trying to buy up the cultural places, who shall remain nameless. Well, there’s a lot of brothers – pick any two. Pin the tail on the… they want to buy up stuff and steer the country a certain way.

Jazz is an interesting music. It’s one of the few forms of music where everyone that’s performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone’s improvising, and everyone’s creating at the same time.

John Huston is more of a creative director than most.

Jon M. Chu is one of the most creative, convincing humans you’ll ever meet.

Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They’re creative troublemakers – that’s why you hire them.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

Just because I make something doesn’t mean that it’s going to be amazing, and most creative people don’t like to admit when their music is just okay.

Kane dons the mask because he is horribly disfigured, unstable, mentally insane and crazy, so I thought it would basically look like he had escaped from an institution. Then, I get the creative for the costume, and it looked like a superhero.

Kate Moss makes you dream. She has such a passion for art and the creative process.

Kickstarter has shifted from funding creative projects to funding products and videogames; the biggest funded are consumer electronics and video game projects.

Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, ‘Don’t go there, that’s not allowed.’

Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it’s safe. It is also out of date. It’s the opposite of originality… Experience is the opposite of being creative.

L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it’s really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.

LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people’s plight.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they’re all a continuum – the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.

Like a film, dance steps or sequences are creative works. If a script can have a copyright, and so can songs, why can’t dance sequences as well?

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‘One tear, right now,’ that one tear would pop out.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they’re casting, they’re dressing the scene, they’re working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they’re also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

Like most creative people I don’t fit well into boxes.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

Like the sand and the oyster, it’s a creative irritant. In each poem, I’m trying to reveal a truth, so it can’t have a fictional beginning.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring – so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

Linda Svendsen’s ‘Marine Life’ was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.

Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it’s a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.

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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

Literature – creative literature – unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Lke so many depressive, creative, extremely lazy high-school students, I was saved by English class.

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It’s a contrary, complex and creative city, an anarchist of a thousand faces – fickle and unfailing, tender and bleak, ambitious and callous.

London is full of creative people – you can never say that it’s not.

Louise Frogley is a brilliant designer. I always find her wardrobe fittings really informative and creative. Together, you kick images and ideas around.

Luckily, my creative juices are pretty much on tap. If I’m compelled to do something, I can go for it and get it done.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood’s most powerful agency.

Magic symbolises the subconscious – that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don’t tap into.

Make a list of activities that keep you tethered to your creative world, and put it where you can see it every day – like, right in the center of your image board.

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

Making surf films for a living isn’t my business anymore, so it’s really more of a way to get creative and have a lot of fun with it.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Managers are the most creative people in the world.

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation – from the writers of the world’s religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But ‘letting your mind wander’ is very often an important part of the creative process.

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.

Me and Miley just clicked. She has good ideas. She’s real creative.

Men think that not being able to wire a plug somehow makes them more creative or intellectual. It just makes them morons.

Mentorship is important for everybody, but it can come in a variety of forms. It can come from your boss or another colleague who may be more of a peer, or someone who reports into you if they have a lot of experience or creative experience.

Michael Fassbender is just a creative force: he finds authenticity in singularity with what he brings, and it’s always authentic. He doesn’t try to be creative and different for the sake of it.

Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true ‘Jurassic Park’ fan.

Millennials, as others, want creative, durable, desirable, and beautiful products. But they do add a new criteria: respect.

Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the ‘Voices Compassionate Education’ website and on ‘Inner Michael’, where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson’s creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.

Mophonics is kind of a creative home for me.

Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, and millions in creating eye-popping ads, hoping to create catchy, unforgettable commercials. Unfortunately, most Super Bowl commercials end up being unmemorable. Costly mistakes for brands and creative flameouts for advertising firms.

Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

Most brands want to see their products used in creative ways.

Most creative people fall into one of two categories – either they’re task-oriented, or they’re time-oriented.

Most creative thing I’ve ever done? Got somebody pregnant.

Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they’re just willing to take chances, you know, and there’s a market for it.

Most of us have this story of not feeling comfortable because of how you were. Now they call it ADHD. I just knew I bounced all over the place. I’m glad I had ADHD… It’s what makes us creative.

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

Music is obviously our No. 1, always. But it’s so fun to venture out to another creative outlet.

Music is one of the last elements in the creative process. It can and hopefully should tie a bow around an artistic concept, how a story moves forward, the pace of that storytelling.

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics – they’re a lot more tangible. They’re much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

Music reflects the time that it’s being made in, and so certainly, the music that’s being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he’s an inspired and creative musician.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it’s unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

My approach to directing is to not do very much directing. I’m mainly interested in what the creative group individually and together are thinking.

My aunt made stuff; my mom was creative, so I was surrounded by that. When I moved to England, it was ’75, and everything was happening. My whole teenage life is England, glam rock and David Bowie and Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop, all that stuff.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of ‘me’ storytelling.

My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.

My choice of films has never been governed by money. That is perhaps why I don’t have a very fancy bank account. I’d rather get respect and creative satisfaction through my work than just earn money.

My creative is for the world.

My creative juices flow seasonally.

My creative partner is a writer, and he’s got an executive producing credit on this film. We’ve made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

My creative process involves that old saying: It’s 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

My creative process is a bit manic at times, to be honest. I wake up Monday and Thursday stressed because I don’t have a video. I usually – with the exception of maybe a handful of videos – wake up, write the video, shoot the video, edit the video, release the video all in the same day.

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I’m washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

My creative team filters the scripts before they reach me and a few others. We evaluate them, ponder over the budget, and think of various possibilities to get the viewer excited.

My dad is a very creative type of person, so he has rolls that make no sense to most people familiar with sushi. He has a High Five roll. What is that? Don’t ask questions. Just try it. He’s kind of mischievous, and that’s how I am, too.

My experience is in merging extraordinary creative content with innovative global commerce.

My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

My favorite era was the ’60s because it was filled with incredible creative newness, from panty hose to landing on the moon to Twiggy and Andy Warhol – I loved them, and they loved to wear my silver clothes.

My favorite rappers are, I can’t really say. I like Kanye because he’s so creative. He’ll just do anything. I like what Kanye’s bringing to the game. Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it ‘Celebrity Life Magazine.’ I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco.

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you’ve got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn’t know it, because I hadn’t been in the business.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

My first TV experience, it was so bad. I just didn’t feel a creative atmosphere. I felt like we were just pawns to deliver lines. Everyone was telling me that’s just television. I said, ‘OK, I’m going to stay far away from television!

My goal is to embrace the people, the ‘natural resources’ of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

My greatest role model is my mom because she’s a Renaissance woman. She has had many careers over the course of her life because she really is just an extremely creative, passionate person and is very involved in many different things.

My hairdresser loves me because he gets the liberty to get creative with my hair.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there’s no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

My introduction to Motown was through The Jackson Five and Michael Jackson. Michael’s been my greatest creative inspiration, so that’s how I really became familiar with Motown as a whole, and as I got older, I learned far more about the other groups.

My last album as J. Tillman, ‘Singing Ax,’ that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn’t creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of – doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games and being appointed the creative chair for jazz at the L.A. Philharmonic. So I’ve just decided I’ll go with my flow and be very prepared.

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I’ve always been surrounded by creative people.

My mom was a great cook and also a very creative cook.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We’re both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

My name is out there right now. I’m creative and innovative. I should capitalize on it.

My new toy is not knowing, because it’s very creative. I’m the guy who likes to get in the car and get lost.

My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.

My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance classes, take me to jazz clubs.

My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we’re able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.

My presence in California will bring a new, inspiring culinary environment to life, and I’m delighted to share my creative techniques and evolving fresh ideas with the Beverly Hills community.

My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.

My process is pretty messy, and there’s a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I’ll write some passages from it just to figure out who these characters are, how they talk. And I have a dim sense of what it’s about and where it’s going to go, but I know that’s going to change, too.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

My sights have always been on acting, on the creative process, never the lifestyle. Growing up in Northern Ireland when I did, everything was against you if you wanted to do something like that. But I was determined.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

My team or I didn’t enjoy any administrative authority in the creative role play for the Telugu version of ‘Queen.’

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

My undergrad degree was in graphic design, and I don’t work in that anymore, but I obviously do a lot of design and editing and Photoshopping, and the Adobe Creative Cloud is essential!

My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.

My whole life, I’ve always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he’s near and dear.

My wife Ciera and I can stand face-to-face in our kitchen and stare into each other’s eyes and talk for three hours without noticing that any time has passed. She is the kind of gal I spent a lifetime daydreaming about. She is an actor and a creative companion.

Naturalism says that we were not put here for any purpose. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t such thing as purpose. It just means that purpose isn’t imposed from outside. We human beings have the creative ability to give our lives purposes and meanings.

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

Netflix gives a lot of creative and artistic freedom to its actors and to its production team and whatnot.

New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.

Neymar is a leader when he is happy – being happy means being creative and feeling inspired.

NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the manufacturing of brands. Even a consumer revolt merely reinforces one’s role as a consumer, not an autonomous or creative being.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

No one in my family was creative. One of my sisters went to a university, and pretty much, most of my siblings live a basic and dull lifestyle.

No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal – however permanent it may be – than the creative process itself, the process of composition.

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It’s extremely rare.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

Nothing that Robert Plant does will ever equal Led Zeppelin, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to stop being creative. Jimmy Page has so many incredibly cool projects, but it’s not Led Zeppelin; there will only ever be one Led Zeppelin.

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they’re casting, they’re dressing the scene, they’re working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they’re also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

Now that I’m in the position I’m in now, I like to take all my creative ideas and put ’em on the Internet for my fans to interact with. Give ’em something to do.

Now, the DJ becomes a star in itself because of the way he programs the songs with lows and then highs and then slowing it down. The big DJs, like Tiesto and Deadmau5 and all those guys, they are very, very creative.

Now, we don’t teach children in schools to be creative. We don’t teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.

Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than ‘The Foxes of Harrow’ or ‘Mrs. Parkington.’

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Oftentimes, when a movie turns into a series, you never retain the creative auspices. You buy the idea, you buy the franchise, and then you bring in a whole new creative team and copy the tone or sensibility.

Oftentimes, when I’m trying to get inspired, I’ll find myself just staring at the wall and let the fans inspire me to get creative.

On the road and traveling – that’s when people are at their most creative.

On ‘Catfish,’ I’m a co-host and onscreen cameraman, maybe the second onscreen cameraman after Wes Bentley’s turn in ‘American Beauty,’ which is funny and ironic. But before that, I’d been doing a lot of creative nonfiction.

Once something is memorable, it’s living and you’re using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

Once the amateur’s naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

Once you make decisions, you can’t go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you’ve chosen.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

One of my favorite things about working on ‘Liv and Maddie’ is the creative environment that has been designed for us by our lovely director, producers, and writers.

One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you’re doing something creative. You can be cheesy… or you can be lame.

One of the biggest things I learned was not to tell myself ‘no’ before someone else. As someone who’s creative, I know the inner critic can be really loud. Early on in my career, I would just listen to it and tell myself ‘no.’

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.

One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren’t lost forever; they live in your work.

One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the creative destruction of the early 20th century and emerged triumphant when it was over.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

One of the guys I’ve always said was one of my favorite fighters to watch was Sakuraba. He’s always been really creative. He’s got a great attitude, and I think he has the right approach of just going in there and letting it all hang out.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something – live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete… Awaken your creative sensitivities!

One of the perks of being a ‘New Yorker’ cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.

One of the things that Dumbledore is always trying to do is to empower the kids to take ownership of issues and be creative and involved. That’s what we see today. We need to empower America to be a creator of its solutions going forward in a new, very confusing world.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

One thing that I do ask myself when I’m in the creative process is, ‘Does the world need this?’

Other people might buy a Rolls-Royce. I’d rather encourage people to be creative.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

Our creative communities in Nashville, in L.A. and New York, and in Austin, those are communities you want to see stay viable.

Our interests are pretty boundless, as is our appetite for new creative experiences.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it’s to keep alive, it’s to keep awake, it’s to keep watching, it’s to keep feeling, it’s to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I’m on the creative end of things, I’m discovering that they’re even more fun to write!

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Paul is a very creative artist but I’m more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

People are doing so many incredible, inspiring, interesting things all over this country, and I think that’s where the hope is – seeing how innovative and creative people can be.

People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.

People are generally badly advised when they’re starting out in the creative field.

People don’t really know themselves until they’re 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn’t much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from – inside us or from a higher power? I don’t ask any questions. I just write it down.

People in the media and press often say they’ve never been good at math. It might be that people that consider themselves creative didn’t consider themselves good at math or didn’t find math interesting at those early stages. And those creative people are disproportionately represented in those influential roles.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.

People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social careers.

People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always been influenced by their mothers. Their mothers are the ones that created whatever it is – the urge to create.

People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They’re majestic and creative and beautiful.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Pinterest is offering consumers a way to discover things on the web, in a serendipitous way, with a beautiful user interface. So it’s offering a whole new paradigm called ‘discover’ and allowing users to be creative.

Playing live is great, but it’s not a creative thing, really. It’s a reproductive thing.

Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn’t it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored – not used as a vehicle – the results can be really interesting.

Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

Producing should be a creative responsibility.

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are.

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if ‘playing it safe’ does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn’t do any worse.

Pursuing a creative field is giving a piece of your heart over and over, and it’s not generally appreciated – nor should it be. It makes you who you are.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we’ve fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

Rap is like any other genre: There are the people who are very creative with it and do remarkable things… and then there’s that whole quadrant that sounds alike. There’s great stuff that’s taken the genre to a new level over the years, and ‘Regulate’ was one of those tracks that was kind of a landmark.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that – that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It’s a creative process.

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as ‘solidarity.’

Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

Representing not just the resurrection of a career, 1953 marked 37-year-old Frank Sinatra’s creative emergence as the best singer of his century.

Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited.

Retaining a child-like sense of wonder is a boon for creative types like Steven Spielberg and J. K. Rowling.

RIKEN has attracted numerous outstanding scientists from inside and outside Japan, and these people have achieved creative and outstanding results.

Running a business is incredibly hard, especially as a creative person, because you’re extricated from the creative very quickly, and that is really hard. Obviously, I have experienced that first hand.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

Ryan Murphy’s a brilliant director to work with who’s very fun and creative.

Sadly, so many arts programs have been eliminated from schools due to budget constraints. These creative outlets are so very important, not only for a child’s well-being, but also for self-expression and fun.

School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but… I needed that creative outlet so much. Also, I’m just bad with numbers.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

Self-imposed discipline with a bent towards results rather than ‘creative’ and sustainability spending is unfortunately not the norm in the marketing industry.

Sensitivity, awareness, and conflict – these have catalysed my creative growth.

Shah Rukh is very talented with design, and he is extremely creative.

Should a story be readily told in a PG-13 fashion, it should be for creative, not business, reasons.

Show, don’t tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames.

Since age seven, I’ve been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I’m using to cook.

Since my ‘Crown of Midnight’ tour in 2013, we’ve had such a rapid jump in audience numbers that we’ve had to move to bigger venues, cap events, and find new and creative ways to keep the line flowing while still allowing me the chance to chat with each person, which will always be very, very important to me.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

SK will remain the strongest supporter to help creative economy centers become the backbone of the Korean economy.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.

So I think it was to Bryan’s credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don’t you will die inside as a person.

Soccer’s not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they’re not.

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.

Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.

Some of our best episodes of ‘Buffy’ were written over a weekend. You can really get in touch with your creative spirit when you’re at your most desperate.

Some of the brightest, most creative minds have been touched by mental illness.

Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences – their social circles and memories and mores. I’m one of those who draw creative energy from the opposite.

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian’s Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

Sometimes I know a film might not pull the audience to the theatres and have a great collection at the box office. But I need to do these films for creative satisfaction and give something different to the audience.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don’t love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don’t pay.

Sometimes when you’re given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn’t show up.

Sometimes, moms have to be creative to get their babies to eat healthy.

Spike Lee listens a lot. He’s one of the quietest creative people I’ve ever met.

Steam is not really leading the PC in any creative way, but it certainly has proved that the PC is a viable commercial platform by having a product that is amazingly easy to use for the end user, to the point where it’s easier to buy a game on Steam than it is to pirate it.

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

Strangely, Dante’s Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being – really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.

Success stems from the producer creating the optimal conditions for the filmmaker’s own creative process. Not from steering the filmmaker through a one-size-fits-all approach.

Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It’s a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn’t exist anywhere else in the universe. I’m rather sure of that.

Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.

Thank God for TNA: we’ve had the creative freedom to do what we want to do.

Thankfully, I don’t think you can be creative without being free.

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

That’s a fantasy of mine. We could do every record in a residency. It would be so cool. We could play the B-sides along with the album and get really creative with it.

That’s always the most productive research – research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration.

That’s always the time to quit – when you have nothing to say as an artist and creative person.

That’s the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it’s in your head. And then it’s just how little you ruin it.

That’s the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn’t have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

That’s what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

That’s why I’ve always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

That’s why, when Alias came along, I knew I’d be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

The 1980s were fantastic. This was a time when we were at the peak of our creative work. The question of whether we would exist or not – something which everybody used to ask, including ourselves – stopped. Profits kept pace with growth requirements. HCL had credibility – that was the biggest barrier we had to break.

The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they’ve shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls – women’s normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

The challenge in fiction is to write a terrific story. The challenge in journalism is to communicate solid, objective information. The challenge in creative non-fiction is to do it both and to do it well.

The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.

The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I’m going to make a record, it ain’t going to sell.

The choices I make – they have to be creative.

The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element – there to help the creative, active, often male part of the duo to create. A muse is very passive. Who wants a muse? I don’t want a muse.

The consistency – either the theme from record to record, or the band, the different musicians – it really varies. So if I get criticism, I don’t worry about that, because I’m still being creative.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don’t sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.

The creative autonomy in ‘Lucha Underground’ is more than I felt in WWE. There is more willingness from the creative and production team to listen to input from the wrestlers in ‘Lucha Underground.’

The creative brand of Cirque du Soleil is creativity.

The creative capacity of the private sector should be harnessed to develop new and more effective ways to deliver humanitarian solutions.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it’s people from all over the world.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

The creative mind is restless.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that’s what I really love the most, and that’s what I’ve always done for every band I’ve ever had.

The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there’s so much pressure to do it.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.

The creative process for me doesn’t work as well without an image of an audience in mind.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it’s with you all the time.

The creative process is often wrapped up in bottomless anxiety, and when the world applauds the product of that process, it soothes the anxiety. Briefly. Then the anxiety returns and even intensifies.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed – products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture that has irrevocably warped us all to varying degrees.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

The creative scientific process is – It’s kind of – It’s a windy road that has a trajectory, but it’s a slow trajectory.

The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

The creative treasure of Israel’s artists and writers will survive forever.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

The critics are not writers – they’re not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what’s going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

The DREAMers who are in my state are some of the most ambitious, creative, going to be productive businesspeople and doctors. That’s why I’m proud of being the first governor to make sure the DREAMers get access to college education.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp. I hit a creative stagnation that wasn’t helping us forward, and the personal elements, it just was time to stop.

The Enlightenment diamond-shaped society, with a huge, prosperous, socially-mobile, empowered middle class, is by far the most productive and creative system the world has ever seen.

The fact remains that many of the most creative and innovative hypotheses that are eventually verified by empirical research are born in the consulting room out of practitioners’ work with individual patients.

The fascination of somebody with original creative gifts is something that’s always drawn me. I get attached to them, but I can’t call it being in love, because the words are so debased.

The film itself, and my role as Moses, will always remain one of the creative peaks of my career.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning – in common with their male counterparts – are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.

The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.

The fun and imaginative world of Disney is always full of fairytale fantasies. A Disney damsel is creative and resourceful – especially when it comes to beauty tips and tricks!

The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement – something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.

The Google model of targeted advertising is appealing because it claims to cut down on waste. We need to ask how that efficiency can be brought to creative process.

The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That’s a very convenient way to get very creative very fast.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes – but that’s the same with any creative outlet.

The hierarchy is set out for me. The first priority is piano. I have to be 101 percent prepared. I find that at other times of the day, if the creative juices are working, I might want to write or compose.

The horror fan base is fantastic. It really has devoted fans, and I like that aspect of the genre. The people who are making it are always really wonderfully nerdy, creative people, which I always love.

The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don’t acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.

The idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, ‘This is also ‘Fargo,’ you know what I mean?

The ideal intern is committed, creative, organized, ambitious, independent, and able to crack a smile, whether meeting a celebrity or folding socks.

The Indian music market is very film-oriented, and any other creative music venture doesn’t receive enough support. I’d rather do singles and put them on my website.

The industry of political conflict is the biggest industry in Bosnia, and it is still not exhausted. What is needed is to replace these two industries – the industry of political conflict, the industry of human rights – with normal, creative walks of life.

The inspiring thing is that people are often more experimental with their desserts than other courses. It allows me to be more creative and excite people.

The Internet is empowering everybody. It’s empowering Democrats. It’s empowering dictators. It’s empowering criminals. It’s empowering people who are doing really wonderful and creative things.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

The limitations and parameters of a band is something I’ve always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music to places we’d never get on our own.

The majority of advertising agency creatives are creative people, but we’ve disciplined ourselves to think within traditional formats. I want to change that.

The majority of my life is ‘Guardians,’ but being able to clean my brain a little bit by doing something totally different like ‘Belko’ was incredibly helpful to the creative process.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared – they’ll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

The more life you have, the more it’s in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.

The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it’s the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways.

The most creative phase of a film is in shooting, because structure is the defining element of that phase.

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

The music industry really is a meritocracy on a creative level.

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It’s always been the same, but it’s far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn’t exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people’s creative energy that I think it gets abused.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father’s plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of Their creative power.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

The reader has to be creative when he’s reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it’s a sure thing.

The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora’s box, and you can’t close it again.

The reason we started the Driver Era is just ’cause our creative endeavors sort of demanded it.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

The route may, say, go across the field for 22 yards. I know I have to be there, but how I get there is where they allow me to be creative.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn’t fit with expectation – I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

The single most important factor in determining America’s success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

The skill of a good creative leader is being comfortable with blowing up an idea and knowing it will get better.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.