Quotes About Creativity

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

Don't be shy about believing in your ideas - even if folks around you think you're crazy.

For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

The TV business is soul-crushing, talent-destroying and human being-destroying.