Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.
Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
One of those things I never exactly cared for was that phobia of appearing to be rich. To become rich is a natural thing, a result of your work, that which you've done.
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.