Anthony Storr Quotes

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.

Every problem has a creative solution.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

Action is the 'bridge' between the inner world and the outer world.

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

Deadlines and things make you creative.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

When you have no money, you need invention.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest.

You have to think outside the box. The world is changing every day, the music industry is so different but I think the more creative you are the better.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Always push to be creative.

I care about being creative and productive.