Quotes About Creativity

Autobiography is hopelessly inventive.

the Inventing merit badge, which required a Scout to not only invent a new device or mechanism but also to obtain a U.S. patent for it. Needless to say, not many Scouts ever attempted this badge during its four-year existence and it is something of a miracle that nine Scouts managed to earn it.

The only approved American models were James and Twain, neither of whom could be imitated.

You are the only judge of whether a piece of art is a piece of art! It's the average man who is the judge. It's not the effete academic who will determine whether a piece of art is a piece of art anymore than an academic can tell you whether a baseball player is really a great baseball player. It's the fan in the stadium that will tell you whether he's a great baseball player.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

Don't be creative. Don't be stupid." "That's what Machiavelli said. You guys really have a lot of faith in me, don't you?" "Neither one of us wants to lose you. Just be careful, Billy. Careful is my middle name." Black Hawk rolled his eyes. "You told me it was Henry.

Sometimes when I start a sentence with no idea where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.

Entonces sabrás que Albert Einstein aseguraba que la imaginación era más importante que el conocimiento, puesto que este último está limitado a lo que sabemos mientras que la imaginación abarca un mundo aún por descubrir y comprender.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I'm sorry, but this is musical theater, guys. Okay? You've just got to do it all.

The rest of us do "high school theater." Lou does "theater.

Maybe that kid was in the back of the ensemble and he wasn't even good, or he was an abomination. I don't care. He was onstage and he was having a ball, and I'm absolutely thrilled because I've taken that kid to a place he never imagined and may never be again." •

Imagining human culture from the perspective of a non-human species can be salutary.

What if grasshoppers had machine guns? Birds would be fucked!

Being a good, innovative librarian means taking a humanistic stance toward policy, decision-making, and experimentation. It means focusing on the heart.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

That is how entrepreneurs work. Where others see a barrier, they imagine a logical solution and then turn it into reality.

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

The battle lines are well drawn: the microbes' genetic simplicity and evolutionary swiftness against our intellect, creativity, and collective social and political will. We cannot overwhelm the pathogens, because they so vastly outnumber and outmaneuver us. Our survival depends on outsmarting them.