“The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.” MenMindCreativityInspireOrdinaryMen And WomenExtraordinaryDetailsResolutionDiscomfortHarmoniousIngenuityFeatsOrdinary ManPerplexityTantalizing Author:Brian Greene
“Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.” MindFeelingsFacesValuesForceCreativityCreativeGreatnessElementsIncreaseRemainsExtraordinarySuperiors Author:Stefan Zweig
“It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.” CreativityErrorsExtraordinaryInspiredFlightGenerousPhrasesFancy Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann
“I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.” KnowsLifeBelieveHumansGodArtistSpiritualityEnergyHuman BeingsCreativityGreaterJudgingExperiencePerformancesAccountsExtraordinaryAthleteAccessMysticalExceptionalHarborsMystical Experiences Book:A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story Source: A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story
“A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.” ThinkingMindMayIdeasCreativityCreativePlansCapacityEmptyMereExtraordinaryTechniquePhrasesAcquireNew IdeasShallowBe CreativeGadgetsInsufficientExtraordinary ThingsDams Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.” LittlesEndsBigsCreativityTalentExtraordinaryIrrelevantExceptional Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to implementation. And there is an extraordinary gadget lust that drives the military. So it's possible that war is just the ultimate expression of creativity.” PeopleHas BeensWarRealityRolesCreativityTechnologyMilitaryExpressionWeaponsUltimateExtraordinaryLustConceptionVirtual RealityGadgetsImplementation Author:Jaron Lanier
“Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.” HumansProblemGivenChallengesPovertyCreativityDiseaseEnvironmentalExtraordinaryMeaningfulCapabilityTranslateTechnologicalUnemploymentUnlimitedDegradationUnprecedentedEnvironmental Degradation Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!” UnderstandingImaginationAbilityCreativityPracticeKnowingGeniusPerceptionResearchExtraordinaryProofBoundariesInventionCertaintyLimitationFear Of FailureConstraints Author:Patricia Polacco
“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.” IfsWayMindCreativitySubjectsRewardsExtraordinaryUnconsciousFriendlySooner Or LaterPersistentExtraordinary Things Author:John Cleese