I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.
Jocko WillinkGenius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William JamesThere are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest HemingwayEverybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
Maya AngelouA man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest HemingwayNothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
EpictetusMothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. KennedyAs much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.
Clint EastwoodIt took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
Paulo CoelhoI wanted to write.
Christopher HitchensI didn’t play with other children.
Karl LagerfeldSixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
Adam SandlerIf I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.
Bad BunnyI would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
Brian EnoEverybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
EminemI’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
David ByrneI am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
Lady GagaI think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. LewisThere are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan PoeA record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
Lady GagaMere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
Haruki MurakamiIt may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.
Kurt VonnegutMyth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.
J. R. R. TolkienI was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Adam SandlerMusic is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.
AuroraI have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.
LeBron JamesIf you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
Ray BradburyImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinYou can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.
Brian EnoI know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.
Bruno MarsYou can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank ZappaThere is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. FeynmanI wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
Paulo CoelhoYou can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
Taylor SwiftWhat is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Salvador DaliThe only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
Albert CamusWhenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
Maya AngelouIt’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.
Jordan PetersonIdeas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Napoleon HillI hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.
Clint EastwoodI didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.
Kanye WestI hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.
Nipsey HussleI never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
H. L. MenckenCollecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
Ray BradburyI’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
Matthew McConaugheyEvery now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is ‚naive‘ spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of ‚bonsai.‘
Christopher HitchensAll truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich NietzscheChance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise PascalMen admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWithout this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl JungWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
Tennessee WilliamsI think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.
Bob DylanI can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.
RihannaIt 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.
Douglas AdamsThose who have been writing literature have not been writing life.
Charles BukowskiI’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.
Billie EilishWe are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Ray BradburyIdeas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
Ray BradburyI hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.
Harper LeeWhen I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.
Dolly Parton