Famous Creative Thinking Quotes & Sayings

I'm extremely moved by the loving, caring relationship the President always seems to have with his imaginary son. — Dennis Miller

Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.. — John Paul Stevens

Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment. — Bernard Arnault

What is the most important thing in your life?
For me, it is my freedom of mind, my freedom to choose my own ways of self-construction or self-destruction. — Preeti Bhonsle

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself. — Andrew Carnegie

Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology. — Kelli Jae Baeli

I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage. — Edmund White

Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly ... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly. — Stephen Mitchell

These include Philip Marshall Dale, Medical Biographies: The Ailments of Thirty-Three Famous Persons (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952); Brian Dillon, The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives (New York: Faber and Faber, 2010); Douglas Goldman et al., Retrospective Diagnoses of Historical Personalities as Viewed by Leading Contemporary Psychiatrists (Bloomfield, NJ: Schering Corporation, 1958); Kay Redfield Jamison, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament (New York: Free Press, 1993); Jeffrey A. Kottler, Divine Madness: Ten Stories of Creative Struggle (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006); Philip Mackowiak, Post-Mortem: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries (Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 2007); Roy Porter, Madness: A Brief History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002); David Rettew, Child Temperament: New Thinking About the Boundary Between Traits and Illness (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013). Articles — Claudia Kalb

Ever notice how seldom we lose control when frustrated by our boss, but how often we do when annoyed by friends or family? — Lynn G. Robbins

I'd love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can't wait to be a mom. — Paris Hilton

And, what is more, we know how an all-consuming passion for freedom in the world never fails to lead to conflicts and wars which are no less consuming. — Jean Paulhan

Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it. — Greg Wise

Can I tell you what I want? I want to stop wanting things I can't have. I want to stop falling for jerks I don't need. And I want to stop feeling like an f/ing gooey butter cake somebody left out in the rain. — Kate Klise

My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch. — Debi Mazar

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first. — Mark McGwire