Abraham Maslow Quotes

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

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

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

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

I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

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

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.

I care about being creative and productive.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do.

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

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.