Creativity Quotes - Page 31

It is a totally different creativity I am talking about. A Taj Mahal... just watching it on a full moon night, and great meditation is bound to arise in you. Or the temples of Khajuraho, Konarak, Puri - just meditating on them and you will be surprised that all your sexuality is transformed into love. They are miracles of creativity. They were not created by pathological people, they were created by those who had attained.

Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of creativity. The only way to be one with the creator is to be in some moment of creativity, when you are lost. The potter is lost in making his pottery; the potter is lost while working on the wheel. The painter is lost while painting. The dancer is lost; there is no dancer, only the dance remains. Those are the peak moments, where you touch God, where God touches you.

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design.

When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.

The biggest threat to your creativity is the fear that it's already been done, said, created. (So why bother?) Say it, do it, make it anyway - but tell YOUR story along the way. The story of how you came to know what you know. The story of what you want to know more of. The story of why you do what you do. The story of how you came to care. And that's how you create what's never been created before.

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.

Creativity is the new literacy