There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
-William Goldman
Quotations
Creativity
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supplying demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.
-Reginald Fessenden
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
-Ayn Rand
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
The artist has a special task and duty; the task of reminding men of their humanity and promise of their creativity. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
-Ray Bradbury
"Zen in the Art of Writing"
When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it! You grab it and honour it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.
-Justina Headley "Justina Headley"
Creativity is the catalyst to the future.
-Ann Marie Frohoff
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
-Jean Piaget
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
-Henry David Thoreau
