Quotes About Creativity

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.

I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance to what's happening in our world.

I want to be the first person to animate bags - everything done for handbags bores me to tears - I want to make it more playful.

Tears for Fears is me and Roland.

If you listen to Tears for Fears, they had great melodies and less rigid cut-and-paste.

Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing and just improvising some words. And when I get something that sounds good, a line with a story in it, I'll try and tease it out and figure out where the story is going.

I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don't mind you using it, but at least give it a name.' When he hits it, the announcers just say, 'Well, he just hit that... thing.'

Lego for many parents is the antithesis of the high tech world. We are desperate to wean our little ones away from the tablets and into the bricks.

Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.

In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.

In tech, you create the foundation; even sometimes if it doesn't work, you take that same developmental idea, and you use it to apply to a different area.

Although the tech industry is very open to change, many people still have a closed-off mentality where, in the interest of protecting their ideas, they keep them hidden in dark caves.

You absolutely cannot be big time tech guy without attending Burning Man.

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

I'm not one of those playwrights who says, 'Show up, hit your marks, and don't talk to me!' I always want to hear from the other artists involved, whether it's the director, the lighting tech, or the actors.

You don't need to be an engineer or a tech person to benefit from technology. You can hire them.

Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.

The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.

Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club.

It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being 20 years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up.

Anyone who thinks restaurants are hard should try working at a tech company.

I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing - I had a terrible time. I turned up in green dungarees and German power boots. I was into prog rock at the time - Gong and Hawkwind - and I was clumping around.

In tech entrepreneurship, even a lot of hack events tend to be overly commercial in that they're designed to produce companies.