Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching.

A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: ‘Avoid them like the plague.’ Then he’d laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought...

I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it’s loss, still growing and still beautiful....

We can’t underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don’t, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can’t have everything you want.

Innovator’s Dilemma”: the fact that large traditional firms find it rational to ignore new, breakthrough technologies that compete with their core business. The same analysis could help explain why large, traditional media companies will undermine...

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge...

Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them.

Nothing kills creativity so well as a big dose of negativity.

God is the creator, so for that human creativity is a work of Divine.

If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.

The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

Our actions are highly magnetic to our thoughts.

There is new research showing that our creative potential increases with age. Our creativity is a product of our inner and outer experience, and as we get older, we have all kinds of experience to...

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

Let them shoot us in the head,My blood will grow rootsand will blossom.

Let the systematic theologian spell it out. Let the artists throw out thoughts and slants, maybe even slants no one else has thought of. They should give another view of something familiar to help us...

As a songwriter, I’m gathering clues and possibilities all the time, whether I see a piano that day or not. I’ve tried to explain to people how I collect these dispatches, because I think anybody...

wear your treasure and you will be Treasured

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

I dream in fire but work in clay.

Creativity isn’t meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque...

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

Schools train you to be ignorant with style […] they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you’re just smart enough to do a...

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to...

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where...

As I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I’ll steal the light of day away to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

It is in everyone’s interest that every person’s creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express.

Make history, don’t tell stories

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable...

Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights.

Guys, I know this takes creativity and work, but you’re going to absolutely blow her away.

Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.

Spending longer thinking about the problem before you dive in is likely to lead to higher levels of creativity in the final product.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.