Creativity Quotes - Page 38

We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners.

To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.

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.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.

Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.

If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents... It would be much easier to appreciate an era of good feeling, peace and calm stability! But difficult times are also times of growth, of new insights and opportunities, of creativity, and of emergence.

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.

The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

Today is a brand new day. A day of change, of promise, of creativity, of kindness, and of love. I'm going back to bed.