You can’t suppress creativity, you can’t suppress innovation. ~ James Daly
You can’t fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal. ~ Doug Coupland
You cannot teach creativity – how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa
When we recognize that a better word for Fundraising is “friend raising,” we open limitless doors to creativity in support of our causes. ~ Sue Vineyard Quote
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. ~ Brian Aldiss
True creativity often starts where language ends. ~ Arthur Koestler
There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity. ~ Sylvia Ashton Warner
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath
The things we fear most in organizations — fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances — are the primary sources of creativity. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds. ~ Tadao Ando
Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers’ ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace. ~ Ron Kind
Teaching creativity to your child isn’t like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person’s precepts about elbows on the table. ~Gurney Williams III
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. ~ Nadine Gordimer
Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more. ~ Loris Malaguzzi
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life. ~ Arianna Stassinopoulos
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile. ~ Elie Wiesel
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. ~ Edward de Bono
One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity. Be willing to try on something new and play the game full-out. ~ Marcia Wieder
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. ~ Julia Cameron
My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe
My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do. ~ Gwen Stefani
God is creating at every moment of the world’s existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. ~ Arthur Peacocke
Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody’s creativity. It doesn’t exist. Nature didn’t deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed. ~ Jeffrey Katzenberg
Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. ~ George Kneller
Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known. ~ Loris Malaguzzi
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is. ~ Mason Cooley
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. ~ Edwin H. Land
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. ~ Charles Mingus
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. ~ John Updike
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. ~ Steve Jobs
Creativity is an advertising agency’s most valuable asset, because it is the rarest. ~ Jef I. Richards
Creativity is a highfalutin’ word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday. ~ Ray Kroc
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ~ Edward De Bono
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. ~ Helmut Jahn
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men’s higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven. ~ I Ching
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. ~ George Lois
Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding. ~ Loris Malaguzzi
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. ~ Herbie Hancock
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. ~ Dee Hock
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. ~ Tom Barrett
Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place. ~ George Shearing
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within. ~ David Duchovny
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. ~ Florence King
