“Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.” IfsWellsLeftCreativityFireUnderstoodInventionContradictionSparksOrthodoxyGraveyard Book:Anthills of the Savannah Source: Anthills of the Savannah
“The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.” HumansLastsLeftImaginationCreativityPlanetsAdventureExplorationHuman Imagination Author:Wim Wenders
“I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.” TwoLeftCreativityCollegeTheoryMonthsInnovationIndependenceCompetitionRewardsCuriosityConformityCollaborationApplicationSchooledTwo Months Author:Dale J. Stephens
“We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not control derivative work. And copyright law granted this protection for the limited time of 14 years.” YearsLawLeftCreativityProtectionGrantedCoveredRegimesPrintingCopyrightDerivativesLimited TimeCopyright Law Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.” WantLongArtistEnergyLeftGivenBehindsCreativityGrowingSourceDemandExpectationsLong AgoLeft Behind Author:Billy Corgan
“There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in order to conduct its business. But there are also the "left brain" accounting functions that must continually ask how the company is doing financially and whether the creative processes are working for the bottom line.” RealOrderAsksLeftProcessLinesBrainCompanyCreativityCreativeFunctionBottomCreative ProcessBottom LineAccountingOrganizationalLeft Brain Author:John Kao
“The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.” WorldStoriesFoundLostLeftWalksCreativityPathMiddleMovementPositionConversationDiversityCompromiseVarietyComplexityMissionaryMaking LoveInabilityMiddle Path Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss” MenYearsMindYoungLeftBehindsCreativityLandReturnSeedsYoung ManNativeMisfortunesLeft BehindBrianMiragesNative Land Author:Brian Aldiss