I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people. – Jerry Della Femina
Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted. – John Mackey
I did a guest thing on ‘My Name Is Earl,’ and there is something about being involved in a TV show that’s in the midst of its popularity that frees up the creative process. – Jon Favreau
In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it’s so powerful in many ways, and so creative. – Isabel Allende
My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance classes, take me to jazz clubs. – Julia Stiles
The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don’t acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice. – Jake Gyllenhaal
Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But ‘letting your mind wander’ is very often an important part of the creative process. – Jamais Cascio
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal – however permanent it may be – than the creative process itself, the process of composition. – Joseph Brodsky
I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don’t organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos. – Joy Behar
Now, we don’t teach children in schools to be creative. We don’t teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box. – James Dyson
I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don’t know how to be creative. – Julian Casablancas
You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time. – Jason Fried
To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It’s got value, and it takes your time, and it’s useful to people, depending. – John Darnielle
I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I had to do it while I was still young and had an appetite for risk. – Imran Amed
When I buy lots of records, I stop making music – it’s detrimental to the creative side. When I’m DJing a lot, it’s just basically partying every day. – Jamie xx
There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it. – Hugh Hardy
You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel. – Ivar Giaever
I think if you speak to any creative person, there’s something so powerful – so intoxicating, if you will – about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things. – Jhumpa Lahiri
To me, very much of what is artistic is people’s very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations. – James Taylor
The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions. – Jesse James Garrett
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. – John W. Gardner
We allow people to be creative. We set a direction, we set the vision, we set the strategy, but within that framework, we allow our people to be as creative as they want to be. – Jochen Zeitz
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. – John Updike
You don’t do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it. – Isabella Rossellini
I like to be creative and I’m lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I’m lucky that I get to use them. – Jamie Kennedy
We reserve the term ‘genius’ for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term ‘genius’ was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling. – Joshua Foer