“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.” IndividualSocialImaginationAcceptingCreativityCreativeCapableCapacityPressureCaughtIntuitionAssumptionQuestioningPeer PressureSocial PressureFalse Assumptions Author:John W. Gardner
“I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.” PeopleIfsGivingDoePlayStepsRolesCreativeFailingFieldsCapableLowsShotsBallsSightLuckLimitationRuinedDestinedAlways Believe Book:No Regrets Source: No Regrets
“It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.” FactsQualityCreativeProduceHigherCapableFundamentalsCookingCooksIngredientsDishes Book:Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook Source: Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
“The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.” WayArtImportantRealityCreativeVirtueCapableDeterminedWideHardestArtisticEndeavorEarningCreative ArtGood Living Author:Mike Svob
“I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.” MenWellsGovernmentLawPoliticsJusticeCommonEffortPracticeCreativeRecordsViolenceWillingCitizensProtectLetting GoCapableFunctionBiggerPropertyFraudProvenAssignmentsInvokePredatoryMisrepresentation Author:Leonard Read
“In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.” WayChildrenJobsChallengesQualitySupportCreativeTeacherCapableIntelligentAppropriate Author:Louise Boyd
“The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.” KnowsChildrenDoeArtJoyValuesUnderstandingMoralCreativeKnowingTeacherExpressionWasteCapableIntellectualAskingLongingAppreciationValuableSupremeArtisticQuestioningPupilsImpartAsking QuestionsValuable ThingsCreative ExpressionKnowledge And Understanding Author:Albert Einstein
“[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries.” PeopleHumansAmericaHuman BeingsCreativeTeachingTaughtCapableDiscoveryTestsOriginalsTreatedEmphasisCattleTeaching And LearningMemorizing Author:Kesha Rogers
“I have the good fortune of working with two brothers who are very accomplished, incredibly smart, and very capable. So thankfully there is not an issue in that regard where somebody isn't pulling their own weight. We collaborate all the time. We tend to take different paths, but we tend to reach very similar conclusions. It's actually great because it allows us to be much more creative in the process of getting things done.” TwoDifferentDoneProcessCreativePathIssuesBrotherCapableSmartWeightRegardFortuneConclusionAccomplishedPullingGood FortuneThings DoneGetting Things DoneDifferent PathsTwo Brothers Author:Ivanka Trump
“I think when I'm cast in things, people take that as part of the package that I would like to have some sort of creative control and they know what I'm capable of, so they let me come on the day with my own ammunition.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMy OwnCreativeCapableLet MeCastsPackagesAmmunition Author:Rhys Darby
“When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.” ThinkingEnergyCreativityWorryCreativeCapableContentmentKillersHeartbroken Author:Florence Welch
“...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.” InspirationalPersonsInspirationSpiritualCreativeCapableEmpowermentMereEnthusiasm Author:Eckhart Tolle