Augusten Burroughs Quotes

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

Every problem has a creative solution.

Out of necessity comes genius.

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don't see.

Often when you have less to work with, you do more.

My studio was lo-fi by necessity; I was fourteen with no reliable income.

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

The genius is making a way out of no way.