Top 1200 Creative Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

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

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

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

We know from our business with clients around the world that when companies bring together people of different genders, races, cultures, and perspectives, we are smarter, more creative, more innovative, and more relevant.

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!

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

To be and to be creative are synonymous. It is impossible to be and not to be creative. But that impossible thing has happened, that ugly phenomenon has happened, because all your creative sources have been plugged, blocked, destroyed, and your whole energy has been forced into some activity that the society thinks is going to pay.

Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be coaxed out of them, it has nothing to do with the phases of the moon or even how they feel that day. They go on stage and start playing. Being creative is their job.

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.

The worst thing about the music business is the business part of it. Business has nothing whatever to do with writing, playing and performing.

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

The reason I grew so fast in the supermarket business, without help of the banks in those days, was through my vendors. I convinced my vendors, the companies I was doing business with, if I did more business, they would do more business.

I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done

If you're applying for a creative position, don't be afraid to get a little creative on your resume.

Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader.

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

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

Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

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.

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

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

Every choice I'm making now is so that I can keep working for the next 30-40 years in this industry. These are not creative choices. These choices are to stay in the business, for many years to come.

Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy in you that you really want to make something creative and make something that's going to impact the world, then go for it, do it and don't let anybody tell you no.

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress

I'm all about risque - I love that stuff. I love to be creative - that's what the entertainment business is about.

I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience's approval whether you deserve it or not.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.

I'm a creative person, and I'm gonna be creative, so whoever's upset because of that, that's too bad.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

I'm not always open to creative input when I have my heart set on a creative idea or a message I want to convey.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.

Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.

When you're young and creative, you don't know how to channel all that creative energy, so sometimes it goes to the wrong places.

I never thought that was even possible, to have your friends working with you. In the music, yes, in the creative side, yes, but in the business side, I need people who take me fully seriously.

I think one of the main reason's Rick Rosenthal and Whitewater PIctures decided to 'get in bed with me' on 'Fat Kid' was because I came in with a strong business plan as well as a creative vision on how to make the film.

Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

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

When you're a teenager with a creative mind, be as creative as possible. I'd rather you go nuts. Having more ideas is always better.