If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

Lineation can make your break your poems.

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel… just steal the hubcaps.” ― Michael P. Naughton,

If traditional doesn’t work, then traditions won’t do.

Creativity and innovation will end up moving offshore where programmers outside the U.S. can develop technologies that are not required to address the onerous CALEA requirements. The U.S. companies will face competition from foreign providers...

The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there will be a little thought; it is synonymous to a well informed person...

Gratitude is a way of creativity.

Sexuality, like creativity, is a gift from God.

Creativity is as important as literacy

Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.

When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our...

I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

Create a guidebook of creative dreamsYou can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between...

After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head—for...

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work. And make the right choices and protect...

I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn’t be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict — the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow...

When I walk into [the studio] I am alone, but I am alone with my body, ambition, ideas, passions, needs, memories, goals, prejudices, distractions, fears. These ten items are at the heart of who I...

Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter…a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I always believe that ideas are like shooting stars when you have one make it happen and not just wish.

Mark has a proven track record in driving creativity, innovation and growth. He’s an experienced, talented executive and has played an instrumental role in building our business and making the Nike brand as strong as...

All change begins with someone having a thought.

The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

People talk– they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Créer, c’est vivre deux fois.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.

At times, I get to look music in the face and I can’t help to either cry or blush a little every time I do.

How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then...

Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.

Arrogance kills creativity.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

So many important New York musicians were gay, one wit dubbed the American Composers League the Homintern.

YOU DON’T KNOW IF YOUR IDEA IS ANY GOOD the moment it’s created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. And trusting your feelings...

Social Media begins with a story – your story.

… so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the...

I am not an artist because of my creativity, but because life in it’s creativity threw me in its rough sketched trampled portraits in the trash drew my story.

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path – up or down – meaning it isn’t always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To...

In creating the only hard thing’s to begin

… all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.[2002] p.46

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted

… misfortune and creativity go together.

honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.” Good to remember…

Creativity can impact some sort of “CHANGE” in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure “DIFFERENCES” and work together for a common cause.

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death,...

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.