117 quotes about creative follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

John Updike

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

Rita Mae Brown

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Matthew Arnold

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

Julia Cameron

It was creative -- it was creative abuse.

Chris Graveline

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

Teachers are selfless, creative, warm people.

Alice Carter

It's more of a creative outlet, a medium like paint. A lot of what they do is art.

Steve Witt

This is a creative way to address community safety and sound concerns.

Sam Mcallen

We are always looking for new and creative mechanisms to connect with people where they are at.

Pam Frache

We had to be creative to find ways to protect our members.

Mike Old

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

Louise Nevelson

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

Bill Hicks

Creative destruction is our middle name .

Michael Ledeen

You have to be creative.

Cherryn Wilder

Was to integrate the company, so all the creative juices and goals were the same.

Bonnie Hammer

She is brave, insightful, smart, creative and fun to be with. I am impressed with her business talents.

Pepper Schwartz

It's considered creative and entrepreneurial to mix the sectors. I'm arguing it's not a good thing.

Ron Moe

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Mikhail Bakunin

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

James S. Mcdonnell

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Nick Cave

Johnny is very creative and really doesn't belong to anyone but himself. He is in a different category than everyone else, on and off the ice.

Denis Petukhov

Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one.

Joe Amato

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Richard Branson

We're prepared to be creative.

Greg Hamilton

All children have creative power.

Brenda Ueland

Gardening is another creative outlet for me.

Sean Dolan

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

David M. Ogilvy

We had to be very aggressive and creative in how we designed the buildings.

Tim Romani

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

I'm a creative person. I've always chosen people who are entertaining themselves.

Brittany Murphy

[Right now] it's time-consuming with handoffs between creative and development.

Rob Howard

When people get desperate, they get very creative.

Jeff Smoller

I told him to be creative and do his thing. He brought me back a design, and I actually had to talk him up in price.

Steve Siegel

They can do whatever they want. It's all creative and it's all their time to shine.

Jaclyn Fromer

There has always been a strong emphasis on the creative arts in this community.

Janette Epp

All you have have to do is watch the commercials. It's clearly an unfair use of our creative and intellectual property.

Larry Schwartz

You get a more creative application of the codes.

Terry Hughes

We've got a few creative things in mind.

Ryan Julison

She loved black and white stills. She was very creative and talented.

Amy Uriell

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

Bruce Dickinson

He's creative. He finds ways to get contracts done.

Terry Ryan

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plomer

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

John Cassavetes

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

Agnes De Mille

We're forced to be creative with how we service our students.

Lindsay Ball

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

Max Nordau

These are come of the strongest, most creative teachers in the country.

Joanne Wheeler

It's a really creative way to capture consumer fancy. It's all about choice.

Jim Donio

He's and excellent creator in one-on-one situations. He's creative and smart.

Jovan Vavic

You know what? You have to be very creative. I don't know how a person can lie that much.

Johnny Flowers

We told them to be very creative.

Sarah Stevens

It's a fact of life; creative shops have to compete with shops from anywhere.

Ben Carlson

They had a really creative show. But it came down to something so minute.

Alex Mcelroy

There is no set way to use the moldings, so people can be creative. As they're decorating, they can come up with their own ideas.

Dave Fieramosca

I'm usually balanced, but I've been out of balance when I've had to focus on a few things to the exclusion of more creative aspects.

Michael Kennedy

I really enjoy doing them. It's creative and every gift is unique.

Heather Sinclair

Cooking is something I absolutely love. It's just such a creative outlet for me.

Bev Jones

I very much enjoy the creative banter with Steven.

Peter Liguori

Both shows are a testament to the creative power of human beings.

Tony Kushner

It's so interesting how a child gravitates to a certain type of creative expression.

Corey Hart

One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.

Steve Hayden

I guess that's what happens when you get 5,500 creative people with nothing to do.

Jacques Poitras

They are smart designers because they're into the business as well as the creative end.

Andrew Brenits

We took a song that we knew and we got creative with it.

Gina Depaoli

We have to compete for the best teachers. We don't have enough money to compete very effectively, and so we've got to be creative.

Dianne Johnson

He is incredibly inventive and creative.

Nina Zagat

I hate acceptance speeches. They always make you cringe. This way, it's a challenge to be more creative.

Tiffany Shlain

The key for businesses is to continue to be creative in recruiting and retention.

Luke Whitburn

We're getting very creative in that regard.

Tom Hall

I took a creative writing class with him last year.

Nick Vargas

There are some creative numbers out there.

Bill Dowling

We have to get creative about juggling planes.

Tad Hutcheson

There are a lot of creative things you can do as a consumer to further maximize your rebate.

Curtis Arnold

They have found a lot of creative and unique ways to get their athletes the ball.

Derek Anderson

I picked Mike because I know his talents as a creative artist.

David Shulman

You have to combine instinct with a good business acumen. You just can't be creative, and you just can't be analytical.

Andrea Jung

We have a guinea pig with two birds on its head. One of them put the rat in the fridge with a block of cheese. They're pretty creative.

Rita Robinson

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Jimmy Webb

Especially if it is someone with a very creative and influential mind.

Michael Greve

Because we are on an island, we have to be creative about our curriculum.

Sheri Milburn

If someone wants to preserve it, let them buy it and preserve it. We'll see some creative proposals.

Hamilton Osborne

Between conflict and cooperation, I'm in favor of cooperation. But I would also say that conflict at times can be creative.

Steve John

We're not defaming AOL or the corporation or anybody that does business with them, ... We are asking them politely to stop. And we're just doing it in a creative way.

Jim Mckenna

It's very cool. It's exciting to be part of something so new and so creative.

Scott O'donnell

It was a very interesting and creative and cool way to apply technology we already had to another planet.

Chikai Ohazama

Even though I can make my own budgets, I always ask for less money than we need so that you have to be more creative, you have to strip it down.

Robert Rodriguez

We've found creative ways to do some of these other things.

Scott Gediman

Benchmarking provides an inventory of creative changes that other companies have enacted.

John Langley

Where are the voices of the creative community in this debate? Out here on the street.

Patric M. Verrone

We have a very creative approach to our curriculum.

David Miliband

I have always loved to feed people. I'm an artist, and the creative side in cooking appealed to me.

Judy Desantis

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Writing with other people is also beneficial, not only on the creative aspect, but also that they have a different context.

Barry Mann

We look for creative ways to get them in step with fitness.

Cameron Bailey

This technique requires both sides of your brain -- analytical and creative.

Judith Anderson

You can use it for any body part, really, ... You've got to be creative in how you use it.

Stephen Hill

This is a generous prize that benefits the creative culture of Australian architectural design.

John Wardle

It's still 100 percent my store. I will be the creative force behind the store.

Iven Kelley

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Michael J. Gelb

This contract required a creative approach from our standpoint as well as the agent's standpoint.

Rod Graves

What we have on HBO, which I find absolutely phenomenal, is creative freedom.

Lorraine Bracco

I think she'll be very good at it, too. She's very creative.

Barbara Brewer

Whatever we're going to do, we're going to make it fun. We're going to make it different, and we're going to be as creative as we can be to get our message out.

Dean Barkley

He was one of the greatest, most creative fiddlers in country and bluegrass music history.

Mark O'connor

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Some of the best interviews are when it's with a creative peer.

Laura Linney

We have to become more creative and find ways to use all of our guys.

Tom Porter

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Robert Motherwell

It's a very creative idea.

Doug Bingham

Angie must be creative in her play by making variations to win the game.

Yayuk Basuki

Everyone knows that there is a creative crisis in games.

Eric Zimmerman

It was elegant and creative and beautiful - it's who she is. Her personality always came out in her jewelry.

Elaine Gampel

Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.

Edwin H. Land

Areas which are magnets to our creative class, ... are in communities that would have been gone if the old way of thinking had taken place.

Earl Blumenauer