Fred Rogers Quotes

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.

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

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

I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand.

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

To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

I care about being creative and productive.

The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.