Quotes About Expression

Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.

If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.

He looks like he needs worming.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

It's very different to live with a mask.

What is your message ? And who will you be telling ?

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

Learn to express, not impress.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.