Quotes About Creativity

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

If you do what everyone else does, you'll wind up having what everyone else has.

Everything we think we know about entrepreneurs is WRONG!

In the Information Age and the age of the Internet, millions of people under the age of 30 are getting rich using their imaginations to create apps that change the world—from Facebook to Uber to Snapchat and others. Those with imaginations thrive while those without it are still looking for a job… a job that may soon be replaced by robots and technology.

Financial intelligence is simply having more options, figuring out ways to create opportunities or altering situations to work in your favor.

We learned to make money work for us. By not getting paid for our work at the store, we were forced to use our imaginations to identify an opportunity to make money.

Viva the mitten with wriggle room over the glove where form follows function!

Our thinking has many sources.

No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.

I like to tease Rowan that he can go ahead and try to reason his way to a new world, but my generation intends to dance our way there.

I was, I remember, nineteen years old, wrote poems, still wore no proper collar, ran out in the rain and snow, always woke up early in the morning, read Lenau, considered an overcoat a superfluous item, received a monthly salary of one hundred twenty-five francs and didn't know what to do with all that money.

I'm not here to write, I'm here to be mad.

Las naturalezas creativas no son especulativas. Eso las distingue de los imitadores.

Je bescheidener meine Wohnung war, um so eleganter wirkte alle Eleganz auf mich, um so künstlerischer erschienen mir Schöpfungen aus dem Gebiet der Kunst, und Freunde und Liebe kamen mir um so freundlicher und liebenswürdiger vor.

Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren't allowed to understand anything about it.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls —Robert Walser. A German-speaking Swiss writer, Walser is understood to be the missing link between Kleist and Kafka. Confined to a sanatorium in Herisau, Switzerland, he used to write 'micrograms', (undecipherable short texts handwritten in a nano text-size) and take long walks. On the 25th of December 1956 he was found, dead of a heart attack, in a field of snow.

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children....