“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.” IfsMayIdeasReasonProblemSidesAbilityMoralCreativityProgressConflictConsequenceTestsPracticalsHandleConsistencyBettermentAdequacy Author:Rudolph Rummel
“Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.” PeopleLeadershipDifferencesCreativityConflictInnovationMirrorsPrimariesStaringEnginesCreativity And Innovation Author:Ronald A. Heifetz
“Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.” DreamDesireForceImaginationCreativityConflictDrivingImpulseFuelResolveOur DreamsDaydreamingDriving ForceUnfulfilled Desires Author:Sigmund Freud
“I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.” IfsKnowsWritingTwoBookFormThreeFeltTermCreativityWrittenHappenedBuddhismConflictEnlightenmentLiberationRejectionLengthChaptersRejectedEntitledExploringPsychicsEasternEssaysFascinationAntibodies Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.” PeopleMayWishCreativityBuddhismFineConflict Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract entities such as Buddhism. To me, anyway, the entity in my life that conflicts with my creativity is Buddhism.” PeopleMeanDifferentCreativityBuddhismConflictComplexesAbstractDifferent ThingsEntityDifferent PeoplesDifferent Relationships Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.” IdeasCreativityCreativeFashionConflictMarketingBe CreativeBad AssCreative ThinkingCreativity And InnovationCreative IdeasIdeas And CreativityInspire CreativityConflict Of InterestCreativity And DesignConflicting Ideas Author:Donatella Versace
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” WayInspirationalDifferentMomentsFeelingsHappinessSpiritualAnswersStepsCreativityAwarenessTruth IsConflictDifficultyEncouragementAdversityUnhappyUncomfortableDifferent WaysFinestDiscomfortConflict ResolutionRutsJust Be HappyReinventionInspirational CareerSearching For HappinessMotivational CareerBeing UnhappyCourage To ChangeUncomfortable FeelingFinest Moments Author:M. Scott Peck
“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.” InspirationalMeanPersonsLongMightWomenCreativityPositiveConflictSlaveryEqualityMemorableSoarPeace And JusticePeace JusticeNigeria Independence Author:Marian Anderson
“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.” FeelsSelfBornChallengesAcceptingCreativityConditionsAcceptanceConflictInnovationEverydayTensionSelf AcceptanceSense Of SelfCreativity And InnovationPuzzledImagination And CreativityArt And CreativityInspire CreativityInspiration And Creativity Author:Erich Fromm