Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

My personal philosophy is not to undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.

Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

You can't teach creativity at film school.

I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.