Anita Roddick Quotes

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

I wouldn't suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I've definitely noticed a pattern of being 'creative.'

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

When you have no money, you need invention.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

All of our movies are lower budget, and that makes them more interesting, too: we have to come up with solutions other than throwing money at problems.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

At 'Vogue,' I was responsible for a lot of production work, and production work is highly detailed, and you have to be very resourceful to fit a square peg into a round hole. I learned to push the envelope when it comes to asking questions or making requests.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

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

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Constraint inspires creativity

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.