“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
“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!” IfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsYearsBelieveChildrenPlayRunningFallFearLosesEnemyCreativityMillionsLaughingRiskLetting GoCapableDrawsGainsNineGet UpBehaveWillingnessFearfulFreezePlaygroundsNine YearsGood BusinessChildren Playing Author:Faith Ringgold
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.” GovernmentCreativityMilitaryHeroTenProveCapableStructureTheatreDivisionHeroicAnti WarShaking Author:Vaclav Havel
“When we practice paying attention, moving with ease of body and mind, and being efficient, our body becomes very capable and strong, and the mind is able to be calm and travel further inward, where we have direct access to your unique creativity, intuition, and feelings of connectivity.” MindFeelingsBodyAbleMovingStrongAttentionCreativityPracticeCapableUniqueDirectCalmIntuitionAccessPay AttentionEaseEfficientInwardMind And Body Author:Tara Stiles
“I think it'll take a while to adjust, but when you think about just the creativity of people and what they're capable of and the sort of aspirations and dreams that they have, the idea that they're not capable of anything more than sort of performing these automatable clerical tasks, I don't believe that for a second.” PeopleThinkingBelieveDreamCreativityCapablePerformingAspiration Author:Patrick Collison
“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
“Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)” HumansCreativityGoodnessCapableDestructive Book:Upon The Midnight Clear Source: Upon The Midnight Clear
“Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.” KnowsNeedsMeanDifferentSuccessOpportunityPrinciplesCreativitySuccessfulSourceDisciplineCapableToolsStressInnovationEntrepreneurSymptomsExploits Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship