Brenda Ueland Quotes

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.

I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.

It used to kind of upset me when I'd be working on a part in my hotel room, and I'd get an idea for a song and find myself on the guitar for an hour when I should be working on my lines. But I've discovered that when I start to shake up my creativity it wants to be expressed in all kinds of different ways. They all kind of inform each other.

Creativity is the power to act.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

I wanna keep being productive and creative.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

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

All children have creative power.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

My compulsion is to create things.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.