Killing Creativity Quotes & Sayings

Shame breeds fear. It crushes our tolerance for vulnerability, thereby killing engagement, innovation, creativity, productivity, and trust. — Brene Brown

When we ask for God's blessing, we're not asking for more of what we could get for ourselves. — Bruce H. Wilkinson

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place. — Kurt Vonnegut

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. — George Santayana

I have a lot of regrets about what I've done. If I had to do it over again, I never would have left the Mets. I'm very thankful for all that Mr. (George) Steinbrenner did for me when I was with the Yankees, but I wish I had stayed in New York with the Mets. — Darryl Strawberry

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming. — Larry Wall

The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them grown up. The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of bad teachers, and the nay-saying ways of the world. The creative adult is in essence simply that, a child. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The thing about life, about change, is there are always lessons. Some are subtle, others not, and sometimes it takes being ripped out of your comfort zone to finally get it - then it's transformative. — Lorii Myers

I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the television to watch a movie or play Nintendo or Xbox. I think there is nothing better for killing creativity and imagination. — Alexandra Adornetto

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. — Kevin Mitnick

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker. — Armand Assante