Maynard Webb Quotes

All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard, and make friends.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.

When you do multiple things you love, it doesn't feel like work.

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

A good head has one hundred hands.

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

I need to be creative all the time.

I think I can contribute to the team in a multitude of ways.

I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.