Sonya Deville Quotes

Basically I'm an entertainer and I use football as my vehicle.

What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

I think the most important thing is discovering an idea that moves you, and then letting people who are moved by that idea find each other, and work together. A lot of times people focus on the technical side-"oh, I've got to take a class on non-profit development." Too few people allow themselves to think outside the box with regard to their issue areas.

Ideas come from curiosity.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

The simplest things give me ideas.

My thing I liked was to challenge guys that were smaller, guys that were supposed to be quicker. Because I think self-consciously I was trying to prove to people it wasn't just my height that was getting me across in these various sports. It was some other intrinsic things that I had that made me a good athlete.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

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.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.

Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.