Quotes About Creativity

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.

I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.

When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.

First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing.

My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection.

The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear or feel a ding. And it just feels - it's going to be okay.

I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like what you want, then it starts to be fun. That's the way I find writing.

Cultivating innovative thinking starts at the top. Leaders can foster a culture of innovation by encouraging creativity and experimenting with new ideas.

An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.

Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors, like a major record label.

Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band.

In a startup car company, everything you do has to be done in a different way than a traditional car company. And the main reason is that all of these big car companies are operating like giant well-oiled machines - you could put a very seasoned executive in, and all he has to do is make sure the machine keeps running.

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'