My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. - Bob Balaban Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me. - Jackie Cooper Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut. - Art Garfunkel If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike. - Robin Jones Gunn I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept. - Tommy Hilfiger I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing. - Ke...

Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Higher IQs can perform certain kinds of tasks better--logic, feats of memory, and so on. But if the IQ is much higher or lower than that, the window of creativity closes. Nonetheless, for some reason we believe more is better, so people yearn for tip-top IQs, and that calls for bigger memories. A fast, retentive memory is handy, but no skeleton key for survival. - Diane Ackerman Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind. - Karen Armstrong You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed...

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time. - Alvin Ailey Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely. - Josef Albers My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. - Tadao Ando The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process - James Baldwin My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling. - Eric Bana The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process. - Peter Bart Somet...

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly? - King Abdullah Ii Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do. - Laura Hillenbrand A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards. - Jim Hunt Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots. - H P Lovecraft

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts. - Stephen King Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts. - Brad Henry Any day that we are privileged to work at the chalk face is a good one," Van der Huffen replied dryly. "We should pay the Department for the privilege," Bruce Smith, Head Teacher Creative Arts and Languages, replied. "I believe that many of us have; the coin is sweat, fat, and tears. - Christine M Knight The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires nothing less. - Jonah Lehrer It doesn't matter...

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering. - Walter Isaacson My name is out there right now. I'm creative and innovative. I should capitalize on it. - Christian Siriano

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. - Alfred Adler When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over. - Freddy Adu The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. - Edward Albee Be creative. Remember that we only learnt how to fly when we stopped imitating birds. - Paulo Coelho There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. - Tori Amos Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, ...