Top 1200 Creative Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

You can keep your mind open and use your imagination and be creative even when you're older. For kids, I definitely think keeping your mind open and using your imagination and being able to play pretend and that it's okay.

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

Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.

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

Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.

Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.

I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

Everyone is creative, but me and my colleagues are using a different definition of creativity than is implied when people say they are not creative. We believe that people are being creative if they are bringing out their highest inner resources to improve their lives and those around them. Those who are living from their core, and doing what they are destined to do, are being creative, no matter how mundane their work or profession might seem.

A way into a creative mind is to really step into their shoes. Do what they love most or try out their art.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

If we have come up with a creative decision and somebody comes up with another idea, you do have to get into the depths of it and ask: "Is it a better idea? Or is it a different idea?" That can be hard. But that's the type of conversation the director and I will have, or as part of our creative groups. So with that in mind, it's hard to keep a budget in line. It's like in life, if you've ever built anything for the first time you're usually better at it the second time.

the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both your subconscious mind and your pre-conscious mind to use your dreams as a way to show you insights, solutions and new creative ideas.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

People equate job titles to levels of creativity. We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing to do with human creativity. In fact, we all have enormous creative potential. Even those that often state with authority that "I'm not creative." With a systematic approach to building creative capacity, we all have the opportunity to create and leave a mark on the world.

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

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

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

The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have to get out of your discursive mind just like in any creative process, this isn't just about acting. So you have to learn a little bit how to work with your own mind.

When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

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

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

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

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.

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

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

You may say, 'That's naïve of you,' and maybe it is, but in my mind, I'm celebrating every kind of woman. That's what a creative person does.

It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.

Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.

The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.

I wouldn't mind doing Playboy again. But only if I had creative control.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.

In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

Being a creative mind, you have to examine who you are every day.

As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Whatever you habitually think sinks into the subconscious. The subconscious is the seat of the emotions and is a creative mind. Once subconscious accepts an idea, it begins to execute it. Whatever you feel is true, your subconscious will accept and bring forth into experience.

Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.