Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.
- George Lois
Essential aspect of creativity… March 6, 2007
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
- Edwin Land
Uncreative Mind V Creative Mind… March 6, 2007
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Anthony Jay
Creative minds know to survive… March 6, 2007
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
- Anna Freud
Creativity V Innovation… March 6, 2007
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
- Theodore Levitt
Creativity is just connecting things… March 5, 2007
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences than other people.
- Steve Jobs, Apple
…Kill(ing) Creativity… February 23, 2007
Teachers kill creativity by inducing students to give them the answers that students think teacher expect. Answers that are expected cannot be creative.
- Russell L. Ackoff, Ackoff’s Fables
Source of True Creativity… February 2, 2007
True creativity quite simply starts with balancing your emotions and activating the power of the heart. Through practicing emotional management from the heart, you tap into the highest form of creativity possible–recreating your perceptions of reality.
- Doc Childre
A Truly creative mind… October 12, 2006
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off…
They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating.
- Pearl Buck
US novelist in China (1892 – 1973)
