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2. “Creating is the greatest expression of reverence I can think of because I recognize that the desire to make something is a gift from God. The freedom to carve out the time and have a safe place to create that art is a blessing of the highest level in a world where so many people are unable to have either. Every time I indulge in the art of creation without worrying about what the public will think of it is craft in its purest form – and craft can be any old thing at all. For me it’s writing.”
Rachel Hollis
Creativity, Art, Writing, God’s Gift, Self Expression
3. “You create because you have a God-given ability to do so. You create as a gift to yourself and to the higher power who blessed you with those abilities. But you can't make people like or understand it. You have to be willing to put it out there even if they don't like it. Even if they hate it. Even if they give it two stars or none at all.” Rachel Hollis Creativity, Self-expression, Divine Gifts, Artistic Courage, Personal Fulfillment
6. “Someone else's opinion of you is none of your business. Those words are so powerful for anyone who tends to hold other people's opinions ahead of their own; and they are never more profound than when we're creating something.” Rachel Hollis Self-confidence, Independence, Creativity, Personal Growth, Self-validation
9. “Money is only used for two things. One, it's to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence.” Bob Proctor Money, Comfort, Creativity, Service, Personal Growth
14. “Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands apart, he has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men’s chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, ‘You know, I don’t see any black people up there.’ That was his focus—the lives of black people.” Dan Sullivan Influence, Creativity, Black Lives, Artistic Vision, Unique Perspective
20. “If you’re that rare engineer who’s an inventor and also an artist, I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone. You’re going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you’re working on your own. Not on a committee. Not on a team.” Susan Cain Inventor-artist, Solitary Work, Creativity, Product Design, Independent Thinking
21. “Instead, it may be more useful to view creativity through the lens of bittersweetness – of grappling simultaneously with darkness and light. It’s not that pain equals art. It’s that creativity has the power to look pain in the eye, and to decide to turn it into something better.” Susan Cain Creativity, Bittersweetness, Pain And Art, Emotional Depth, Transformation
24. “Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me – they’re shy and they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone where they can control an invention’s design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has been invented by committee.” Susan Cain Inventors, Engineers, Creativity, Solitary Work, Revolutionary Ideas
26. “But there’s a less obvious yet surprisingly powerful explanation for introverts’ creative advantage – an explanation that everyone can learn from: introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.” Susan Cain Creativity, Introverts, Independent Work, Solitude Benefits, Innovation Catalyst
28. “The “evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups,” writes the organizational psychologist Adrian Furnham. “If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.”” Susan Cain Adrian Furnham, Brainstorming Critique, Individual Work, Creativity, Organizational Psychology
30. “To her husband, Art, Aron was creative, intuitive, and a deep thinker. She appreciated these things in herself, too, but saw them as “acceptable surface manifestations of a terrible, hidden flaw I had been aware of all my life.” She thought it was a miracle that Art loved her in spite of this flaw.” Susan Cain Creativity, Intuition, Self-reflection, Acceptance, Relationships
Creativity Quotes by Famous Authors
2. “Creating is the greatest expression of reverence I can think of because I recognize that the desire to make something is a gift from God. The freedom to carve out the time and have a safe place to create that art is a blessing of the highest level in a world where so many people are unable to have either. Every time I indulge in the art of creation without worrying about what the public will think of it is craft in its purest form – and craft can be any old thing at all. For me it’s writing.”
Rachel Hollis Creativity, Art, Writing, God’s Gift, Self Expression
3. “You create because you have a God-given ability to do so. You create as a gift to yourself and to the higher power who blessed you with those abilities. But you can't make people like or understand it. You have to be willing to put it out there even if they don't like it. Even if they hate it. Even if they give it two stars or none at all.”
Rachel Hollis Creativity, Self-expression, Divine Gifts, Artistic Courage, Personal Fulfillment
6. “Someone else's opinion of you is none of your business. Those words are so powerful for anyone who tends to hold other people's opinions ahead of their own; and they are never more profound than when we're creating something.”
Rachel Hollis Self-confidence, Independence, Creativity, Personal Growth, Self-validation
9. “Money is only used for two things. One, it's to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence.”
Bob Proctor Money, Comfort, Creativity, Service, Personal Growth
14. “Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands apart, he has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men’s chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, ‘You know, I don’t see any black people up there.’ That was his focus—the lives of black people.”
Dan Sullivan Influence, Creativity, Black Lives, Artistic Vision, Unique Perspective
20. “If you’re that rare engineer who’s an inventor and also an artist, I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone. You’re going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you’re working on your own. Not on a committee. Not on a team.”
Susan Cain Inventor-artist, Solitary Work, Creativity, Product Design, Independent Thinking
21. “Instead, it may be more useful to view creativity through the lens of bittersweetness – of grappling simultaneously with darkness and light. It’s not that pain equals art. It’s that creativity has the power to look pain in the eye, and to decide to turn it into something better.”
Susan Cain Creativity, Bittersweetness, Pain And Art, Emotional Depth, Transformation
24. “Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me – they’re shy and they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone where they can control an invention’s design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has been invented by committee.”
Susan Cain Inventors, Engineers, Creativity, Solitary Work, Revolutionary Ideas
26. “But there’s a less obvious yet surprisingly powerful explanation for introverts’ creative advantage – an explanation that everyone can learn from: introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.”
Susan Cain Creativity, Introverts, Independent Work, Solitude Benefits, Innovation Catalyst
28. “The “evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups,” writes the organizational psychologist Adrian Furnham. “If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.””
Susan Cain Adrian Furnham, Brainstorming Critique, Individual Work, Creativity, Organizational Psychology
30. “To her husband, Art, Aron was creative, intuitive, and a deep thinker. She appreciated these things in herself, too, but saw them as “acceptable surface manifestations of a terrible, hidden flaw I had been aware of all my life.” She thought it was a miracle that Art loved her in spite of this flaw.”
Susan Cain Creativity, Intuition, Self-reflection, Acceptance, Relationships
