The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
Expressing your enthusiasm can add years of
creative life to your time on earth.
- Marsha Sinetar
Love is always creative, fear always destructive.
- Emmet Fox
Coffee: creative lighter fluid.
- Floyd Maxwell
(1957-)
There is then creative reading as well as creative
writing
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the
thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president of the United States
Creative minds have always been known to survive
any kind of bad training.
- Anna Freud (1895-1982)
Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best
creative work gets done on the days when you feel
that everything you're doing is just plain junk.
- Julia Cameron
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp
of the individual who possesses it.
- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (1766-1817)
French-Swiss woman of letters, novelist
The creative person, the person who moves from an
irrational source of power, has to face the fact
that this power antagonizes. Under all the
superficial praise of the creative is the desire
to kill.
- May Sarton (1912-1995)
US author, poet
For a creative writer possession of the truth is
less important than emotional sincerity.
- George Orwell (1903-1950)
English novelist, critic
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares
about doing it right, or doing it better.
- John Updike
Novelist
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too
much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read
too much and uses his own brain too little falls
into lazy habits of thinking
- Albert Einstien
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a
creative force. The friends who listen to us are
the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in
their radius. When we are listened to, it creates
us, makes us unfold and expand
- Dr. Karl Menninger
(1893 - 1990)
Psychiatrist