Creativity Quotes

"Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been."

- Theodore von Karman

"The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds."

- Theo Jansen

"The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table."

- Steven Johnson

"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems."

- Scott Adams

"Design is not how it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

- Steve Jobs

"Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."

- Bill Gates

"Design is intelligence made visible."

- Alina Wheeler

"Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food."

- Austin O’Malley

"I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places, further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned life."

- J.A. Redmerski

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

- Emily Dickinson

"Recite in the name of your Lord who created – Created man from a clinging substance."

- Quran

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."

- Martha Graham

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

- Albert Einstein

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."

- Albert Einstein

"Scarves, mittens, and hats are a great way to express your personality in the cold weather."

- Brad Goreski

"Rock music is not meant to be perfect."

- Ozzy Osbourne

"In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that."

- Taylor Hawkins

"Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers."

- Bruce Dickinson

"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."

- Gwendolyn Brooks

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

- George Washington Carver

"If there is a book that you want to read, but hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."

- Toni Morrison

"I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."

- Jean-Michel Basquiat

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall."

- Roald Dahl

"Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free! The hard part is what you do with the ideas you have gathered."

- Jane Yolen

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."

- Mark Twain

"Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."

- William Faulkner

"To engineer is human; to create, divine."

"Soccer is a dance of skill, strategy, and unyielding spirit."