"Creativity
is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing
which ones to keep."
-- Scott Adams
"There's
room for everybody on the planet to be creative and
conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying
to be like somebody else, then there is isn't."
-- Tori Amos
The
man who follows the crowd will usually get no further
than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely
to find himself in places no one has ever been.
-- Alan Ashley-Pitt
The
moment when you first wake up in the morning is the
most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter
how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the
certainty that, during the day that lies before you,
absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that
it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot.
The possibility is always there.
-- Monica Baldwin
Be
daring, be different, be impractical, be anything
that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative
vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of
the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
-- Sir Cecil Beaton
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"Art in its highest form is art that serves
and instructs society and human development."
-- Harry
Belafonte
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It
is better to have enough ideas for some of them to
be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas
at all.
-- Edward de Bono
"Don't
think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious,
and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try
to do things. You simply must do things."
-- Ray Bradbury
Life
is "trying things to see if they work."
-- Ray Bradbury
A
new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer
or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and
worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
-- Charles Brower
"Creativity
comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never
hope more than you work."
-- Rita Mae Brown (American Writer, b.1944)
There
is a boundary to men's passions when they act from
feelings; but none when they are under the influence
of imagination.
-- Edmund Burke
"Creativity
- like human life itself - begins in darkness."
-- Julia Cameron
Creativity
is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting
of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as
the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender
green stem.
-- Julia Cameron
In
order to have a real relationship with our creativity,
we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
-- Julia Cameron
"The
more you reason the less you create"
-- Raymond Chandler
The
principle of using interactivity as a creativity-builder
is not restricted to computer games. Once we become
fully conscious of this principle, we can find ways
to become more interactive everywhere. We can make
conversations with our family and friends more interactive
than they once were. The more thoughtful our questions
get to be, the more interactive the conversations
--Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself
All
riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas
- not money.
-- Robert Collier
Creativity
is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,
breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
-- Mary Lou Cook
Creativity
is a central source of meaning in our lives... [and]
when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living
more fully than during the rest of life.
--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Minds
are like parachutes: they only function when open.
-- Thomas R. Dewar
"Creativity
is the ability to see relationships where none exist."
-- Thomas Disch
We
are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators
of circumstance.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Imagination
is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert
Einstein
The
intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational
mind is a faithful servant. We have created
a society that honors the servant and has forgotten
the gift.
-- Albert
Einstein
"Problems
cannot be solved by the same level of thinking
that created them."
-- Albert
Einstein
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There
are no days in life so memorable as those which
vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
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"Creative
thinking may mean simply the realization that there's
no particular virtue in doing things the way they
always have been done"
-- Rudolf Flesch
Creativity
requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-- Erich Fromm
"Conditions
for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate;
to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday;
to feel a sense of self."
-- Erich Fromm
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People
should think things out fresh and not just accept
conventional terms and the conventional way
of doing things.
-- R.
Buckminster Fuller
When
I am working on a problem I never think about
beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution
is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
--
R.
Buckminster Fuller
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When
Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether
he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes
replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some
day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until
then, one of the best things we can do for creative
men and women is to stand out of their light.
-- John W. Gardner (1912 - )
An idea not coupled with action will never get any
bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
-- Arnold Glascow
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"In
a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes
a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important
— and often more profitable — than to be civil
or creative or truly original.’’
~ Al
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Concern
over criticism clogs creativity.
-- Duane Alan Hahn
If
we are to change our world view, images have to
change. The artist now has a very important job
to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining
rich people, he's really needed.
-- Vaclav
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The
problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts
into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every
mind is a building filled with archaic furniture.
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will
instantly fill it.
-- Dee Hock
Man's
mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its
original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
An
invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea
whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
There
is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world,
and that is an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
Genius
means little more than the faculty of perceiving in
an unhabitual way.
-- William James
A
truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed
limitations.
-- Gerald G. Jampolsky
The
creation of something new is not accomplished by the
intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner
necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects
it loves.
-- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
"But,
if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps
you create yourself."
-- Carl Gustav Jung quotes (Swiss psychiatrist,1 875-1961)
"Creativity
is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope.
You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone
else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits
and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective
leaders are able to"
-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Creativity,
as has been said, consists largely of rearranging
what we know in order to find out what we do not know.
Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look
afresh at what we normally take for granted.
-- George Kneller
Creative
activity could be described as a type of learning
process where teacher and pupil are located in the
same individual.
-- Arthur Koestler
The
more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems
afterwards.
-- Arthur Koestler
The
essential part of creativity is not being afraid to
fail.
-- Edwin H. Land
Creativity
is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edwin H. Land
Creativity
is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new
things.
--Theodore Levitt: Creativity Quotes
When
all think alike, then no one is thinking.
-- Walter Lippman
Creativity
can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the
defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
-- George Lois
"There
is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents,
the creativity you bring to your life and the lives
of people you love. When you learn to tap this source,
you will truly have defeated age."
-- Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)
Creativity
is not the finding of a thing, but the making something
out of it after it is found.
-- James Russell Lowell
A
will finds a way.
-- Orison Swett Marden
"Creativity
takes courage."
-- Henri Matisse
Creativity
arises out of the tension between spontaneity and
limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing
the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential
to the work of art or poem.
-- Rollo May
The
world leaders in innovation and creativity will also
be world leaders in everything else.
-- Harold R. McAlindon
"Making
the simple complicated is commonplace; making the
complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
--Charles Mingus
The
most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
-- Stephen Nachmanovitch
"Creativity
is a natural extension of our enthusiasm"
-- Earl Nightingale quotes (US motivational writer,
1921-1989)
If
you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits
of alternative approaches—and will probably miss an
opportunity or two. One of life's great pleasures
is letting go of a previously cherished idea. Then
you're free to look for new ones. What part of your
idea are you in love with? What would happen if you
kissed it goodbye?
-- Roger von Oech
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The
best way to have a good idea is to have lots of
ideas.
-- Linus
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To
live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being
wrong.
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce
"The
principle goal of education is to create men who are
capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating
what other generations have done - men who are creative,
inventive and discoverers"
-- Jean Piaget (Swiss Psychologist and pioneer in
the study of child intelligence, 1896-1980)
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"The
chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."
-- Pablo
Picasso
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"Creativity
is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
-- William Plomer
Creativity
represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited
energy of the child with its apparent opposite and
enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined
adult intelligence.
-- Norman Podhoretz
They
will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your
own.
-- Antonio Porchia
"Another
word for creativity is courage"
-- George Prince
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"Art
is not just to show life as it is, but to show
life as it should be. "
-- Paul
Robeson
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Happiness
is not in the mere possession of money; it lies
in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative
effort.
-- Franklin
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It
is the tension between creativity and skepticism that
has produced the stunning and unexpected findings
of science.
-- Carl Sagan
"Necessity
is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father
is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife"
-- Jonathan Schattke
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You
imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine
and at last you create what you will."
-- George
Bernard Shaw
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"Creativity
can be described as letting go of certainties"
-- Gail Sheehy
The
life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled
by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important
purposes.
-- Saul Steinberg
Artistic
creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls
in the depths of the mind.
-- Robert Toth
"Sometimes
you've got to let everything go - purge yourself.
If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is
bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find
that when you're free, your true creativity, your
true self comes out."
-- Tina Turner
Any
activity becomes creative when the doer cares about
doing it right, or doing it better.
-- John Updike
"Sometimes
you gotta create what you want to be a part of."
-- Geri Weitzman
The
things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations,
disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources
of creativity.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley
Consistency
is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
-- Oscar Wilde
"The
imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that
creates."
-- Oscar Wilde
If
we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without
soul, life ceases to have meaning. The creative process
shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with
the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth
living.
-- Marion Woodman
Odd
how the creative power at once brings the whole universe
to order.
-- Virginia Woolf
It
is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the
creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning
a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes
on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes
resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense
of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
-- Virginia Woolf
An
idea is salvation by imagination
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
