Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

David Duchovny

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 Brin

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

August Wilson

I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.

Audre Lorde

Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

Audre Lorde

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters

Astro Teller

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

Arthur Peacocke

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.

Arnold Bennett

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

David Duchovny

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Ben Vereen

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

Ben Stiller

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Barry Diller

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

Audre Lorde

I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.

Audre Lorde

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

Denzel Washington

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

Denis Leary

You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.

Deborah Norville

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

David Icke

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

David Hume

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

David Duchovny

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Body Is Very Important, But The Mind Is MORE Important Than The Body

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

Beatrice Wood

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

Arthur Rimbaud

Morality is the weakness of the mind.