Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

A lot of people probably get the idea that I'm this extremely calculated kind of guy, and in a lot of ways, I am. But when it comes to music or artistic expression, I'm very uncalculated and do things very spontaneous. If I didn't do that, I wouldn't want to do this anymore. I can't just play the same thing over and over; it would drive me crazy.

I don't believe there's a cap on creativity and passion.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

There probably is a lot of music that no one's ever gonna hear. For anyone doing music, just do exactly what it is that makes you want to do it. If you like listening to odd, strange, bizarre noise and that makes you want to create it, do it. Even if everyone around you tells you it's crap or thinks it won't work, someone out there is going to appreciate it.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

I just love architecture, and I just love the idea of being someone who sees the world differently and doing everything you can do in order to actualize that dream. And really sticking to your guns when everyone else is telling you that you're crazy.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.