“It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a lot of it comes from the unconscious. So if you’re always checking your email or updating your Instagram profile, you’re not just looking out the window, daydreaming. You’ve got to let the subconscious in – that’s my main message to the world.” IfsWorldInterestingCreativityEgoMessagesWindowUnconsciousSubconsciousEmailInstagramDaydreamingProfileIphoneIpodsGadgets Author:Jarvis Cocker
“Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.” KnowsInspirationalNeedsGivingLongSelfEnoughPlayProblemFacesPurposeEnjoyWealthInterestingCreativityLaughingLove YouTomorrowGratitudeAppreciateAnd LoveDifficultyCharityAffectionSatisfactionSolveSelf RespectSanityLove YourselfEnjoy LifeLong LifePrescriptionsSustenanceBasic NeedsAppreciate What You Have Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.” ThreeNamesInterestingBusinessCompanyCreativityFiveMonthsGeniusComputerLateFruitStuckClockApplesThreatenedGarbageThree MonthsFilingGarbage Cans Author:Steve Jobs
“In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.” MadeIdeasInterestingCreativityIdealsStructureDebateRationalHumanistMainstreamNew IdeasCentreUncontrollableIdeas And CreativityCourtiers Author:John Ralston Saul
“Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.” PeopleWantArtBookFilmReadingImaginationMy OwnInterestingCreativitySeeingInspireExcitingDocumentariesGreat Art Author:Kate Cary
“Sometimes you get more creativity when you're in a box than when you can do anything. In really difficult situations, sometimes, you get the most interesting thinking.” ThinkingSometimesDifficultCan DoInterestingSituationCreativityBoxesMost InterestingDifficult Situations Author:Jim Mullen
“City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.” NeedsYearsWellsInterestingCitiesCreativityPerformersResidentsNew Interesting Author:Charles Landry
“Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.” WantDoeIdeasHardFactsEasyStuffImaginationDifferencesInterestingCreativityCreativeSpecialDefinitionsCome UpCreatorSomething SpecialInteresting Ideas Book:Pirate Cinema Source: Pirate Cinema
“For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity.” ArtistMotivationChallengesInterestingLevelsCreativityEssentialsScientistInventorAbsorbingHigh LevelIntrinsic Motivation Book:Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFirstsLittlesNightBitsProcessLinesInterestingCreativityDoorsLittle BitRestaurantsProgrammingContinuingOutlookCounting Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“I watched Master Class with Lorne Michaels on OWN. How can somebody produce a sketch show and talk for an hour and not say something even slightly amusing, or sarcastic, or ironic, or interesting, or informative? 'My mission as a producer is to encourage creativity.' Mission accomplished.” ShowsHoursInterestingClassCreativityProduceMastersMissionsProducersAccomplishedSarcasticIronicAmusingInformativeMission Accomplished Author:Andy Kindler
“Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.” PeopleArtBitsInterestingCreativityMonthsComfortableArt IsConceptsSupposed To BeAnnoyingDiverseDarling Author:M.I.A.
“I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.” ThinkingMeanSelfFallInterestingAcceptingCreativityLove YouFalling In LoveAssetsNarcissismIndulgenceSelf IndulgenceSelf IndulgentFalling In Love With You Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.” ValuesInterestingCreativityMilitarySillyDumbAirplaneToysPredictionsLast Words Author:Ferdinand Foch
“I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the same time, like Maureen Murdock. They are photographers and dancers and other kinds of things and therapists at the same time. I think it really makes them a much more interesting therapist because they're so engaged with the imagination and the creativity and the depths of who they are.” ThinkingKnowsKindArtistImaginationLove IsInterestingKnownCreativityAnd LoveDepthPhotographerEngagedDancerGraduatesInstituteTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“There is an interesting and new way to be excited about the fashion world today maybe. The traditional path of fashion as simple magazine images has dissolved - we are seeing new and innovative ways to share, create, and enjoy ideas. I am challenged to learn and explore paths of finding new photographers, stylists, and vision-makers online or through direct contact, connecting with ideas and creativity in new ways, and making images with different outlets. Sometimes more unbridled avenues and unconventional ways lead to things I wouldn't have thought of yet.” WorldWayIdeasDifferentSometimesTodayEnjoySimpleInterestingVisionCreativityPathSeeingShareFashionFindingsDirectPhotographerExcitedTraditionalContactMagazinesOnlineMakersNew WaysConnectingInnovativeOutletsAvenuesWorld TodayStylistUnconventionalIdeas And CreativityFashion World Author:Guinevere Van Seenus
“I love fear, and fear breeds creativity. It forces you to react instinctively, which is the essence of movement. Movement is a creativity - a sense of an emotional movement. And the more instinctual you can make that, the more pleasurable it is. It's like an infant drawing. You're completely uninhibited because creativity is a wonderful expression. Good or bad, who cares? That's part of the past. The act of creativity is what's interesting.” CarePastInterestingCreativityWonderfulEmotionalInfant Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.” WorldInterestingCreativityAudienceExcitingVariousPocketsLiberatingFacets Author:Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
“Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.” PeopleGivingIdeasHopeFunInterestingCreativityPossibilityAchievementWorthwhile Author:Edward de Bono
“Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are. That there is some sort of truth to the whole thing, if you could just get to that point where you could see it, and live it, and feel it. I think it is a long, long, way off. In the meantime there’s suffering and darkness and confusion and absurdities, and it’s people kind of going in circles. It’s fantastic. It’s like a strange carnival: it’s a lot of fun, but it’s a lot of pain.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFeelsKindLongWholePainSufferingFunInterestingBehindsCreativityDarknessStrangeCirclesConfusionFantasticAbsurdityLong WayCarnivals Author:David Lynch