Lack of Creativity Quotes

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

I think that the people who are the loudest about wanting to change you are the people with the least amount of vision and creativity.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.