Creativity Quotes - Page 14

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Creativity is like chasing chickens.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

I’m alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.

I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of crazy creativity. A creativity without morals fired only by the energy of freedom and the rejection of all codes and laws. For freedom rejects the dictated roles of the law and of the imposed order and for this reason is isolated.

Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates merely ask that we relax our standard of adherence to ancient superstitions and taboos, while otherwise maintaining a belief system that was passed down to us from men and women whose lives were simply ravaged by their basic ignorance about the world.

The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.

Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.