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“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.”

Individual Social Imagination Accepting Creativity Creative Capable Capacity Pressure Caught Intuition Assumption Questioning Peer Pressure Social Pressure False Assumptions

Author:John W. Gardner

“The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.”

Firsts Reason Lasts Belief Force Creative Instinct Insight Intuition Analysis Realms Opposition Agreement Logical Confirmation Illusory Instinct Intuition

Book:Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays

Source: Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays

“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”

Mean Art Ideas Self Spirit Lying Artist Effort Secret Vision Creative Art Is Intuition Intimate Works Of Art Wellspring Concurrence

Author:Jacques Maritain

“Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.”

Art Problem Choices Imagination Creative Activity Solutions Art Is Intuition Defined Engineering Engineers Indifferent Deliberate Involving Civil Engineer Civil Engineering

Author:Ove Arup

“Be willing to take some risks in the areas of work and money. If we do only what we think we should do in order to make money and be secure, we won't listen to the intuitive voice that tells us to try something new, to be more creative, or to move on to the next step on our path. When we listen to our intuition and take some risks, we are not alone. The universe will support us and reward us for taking risks on its behalf!”

Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

“If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth.”

Ifs May Growth Creative Risk Patterns Intuition Stuck Permanent Finding Yourself Persist

Book:The New Creative Artist

Source: The New Creative Artist

“Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.”

Creative Elements Discovery Intuition Irrational

Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery