James C. Collins Quotes

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.

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

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

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

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

The heart of creativity is discipline.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.

Always push to be creative.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

I care about being creative and productive.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

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

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.