Ayn Rand Quotes

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them. And then, there's the example of really chipping away at something to create something great. I don't believe that one is more reliable than the other.

I'm creative so I'm always gonna create.

Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

Never compete, create.

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find the kind of thing that people like and just write one of those over and over again. I don't do that. I just keep doing different things.