"The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity."
Creative quotes
Creative
3.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Creative
Browse quotes that often appear alongside creative — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Creative quotes (page 20 of 164)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse."
"Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force."
"You can expand your awareness in many ways, and as you do, your brain will evolve. It will grow physically by developing new neural pathways, synaptic connections, and even new brain cells. Perhaps more importantly, it will evolve to mirror the expansion of your mind into new, creative areas."
"The brain is a dynamic system that constantly processes and creates your reality. It works best if you balance all the things that the brain is good at. The brain is good at being adaptable, flexible, creative, and intelligent. But it's also good at playing and just being. A balanced life provides time - every day if possible - so that every function of the brain is allowed to come alive and flourish."
"Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered."
"Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same."
"In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original."
"The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes."
"American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows."
"That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them."
"I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there."
"The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself."
"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
"The most attractive thing that I've seen in the creative realm is the enthusiasm in people that does not seem to burn out. That's what I'm after."
"There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't."
"I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality."
"I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative."
"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
"If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause."