A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
-Ayn Rand
Quotations
Creativity
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
-Alan Alda "Alan Alda"
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
-Pablo Picasso
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
-Henry David Thoreau
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
-Ray Bradbury
"Zen in the Art of Writing"
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
-Erich Fromm
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supplying demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.
-Reginald Fessenden
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-Scott Adams
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity can not exist.
-Richard Diaz
