Creativity Quotes - Page 27

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

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.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

People who follow their joy discover a depth of creativity and talent that inspires the world.

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.

Creativity's about ownership.

People might think you can turn creativity on and off, but it's not like that. It just kind of comes out. A mash up of all these things you collect in your mind. You never know when it's gonna happen, but when it does ... it's like magic. It's just that simple and it's just that hard.