“People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldTermAcceptingCreativityTraditionOriginalityApologyConventionalSpectacularCreative ThinkingAccept MeConventional Ways Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.” ThinkingMotivationTermMoneyCreativityBehaviorPerformancesCrushDiminishShort TermUnethicalIntrinsic MotivationShort Term Thinking Author:Daniel H. Pink
“I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done.” WritingDoneProcessTermHoursCreativityTypeDrinkDrugPaperDrinkingSmokeStaringSmokingUsersModerationWriting ProcessSmoking And Drinking Author:Ryan Lewis
“To be an artist and to be recognized by another artist who is, you know, just something you can't even put into words, someone that is so far beyond what the normal human being experience is in terms of creativity and originality. That was kind of a moment where I thought wow maybe I do have something more that makes me special.” KnowsHumansKindMomentsArtistTermHuman BeingsCreativitySpecialNormalWowOriginality Author:Misty Copeland
“For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.” PeopleIfsWritingTryingFirstsReasonSeemsDifficultTermCreativityCreativeFairsVery GoodScaredMythQuittingCreative Writing Author:Sarah Kay
“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.” WritingKindMadeEndsPlayKidsWantedThreeTermInterestCreativityRocksBandDecidedSingersNeighborhoodRock Bands Author:Dennis Cooper
“Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.” TermCreativityStimulationPositive ThingsReally Positive Author:Grimes
“Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered in Buddhist terms - Buddhist practice being part of Ko Un's background. Ko Un writes spare, short-line lyrics direct to the point, but often intricate in both wit and meaning. Ko Un has now traveled worldwide and is not only a major spokesman for all Korean culture, but a voice for Planet Earth Watershed as well.” WritingMindWellsSometimesEarthTurnsCultureVoiceTermLinesCreativityPracticePlanetsMajorsDirectWitBackgroundsBuddhistSparesTraveledTwistsKoreanEvokePlanet EarthIntricateFluidityWatersheds Author:Gary Snyder
“Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.” PeopleIfsArtSpiritualArtistTermMoralCreativityCreationShapesIdealsCoreRealmsBroadsIdealismDefining Book:Essential Turgenev Source: Essential Turgenev
“I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.” IfsThinkingWorldFeelsStillsWould BeProcessTermCreativityReflectionDivorceEngagedSomething New Author:Antony Hegarty
“I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational opportunities. The same applies for Dublin, which manages to achieve a blend of complexity, tolerance and artistry and makes a point of not devoting every part of the city to the tourism industry. Sometimes creativity also means forgoing short-term profits and simply saying no.” FirstsMeanSometimesOpportunityTermNaturalCitiesCreativityAchieveIndustryAdvantageRateProfitEducationalAttractionToleranceManageComplexityParksShort TermTourismSaying NoArtistryBarcelonaDublinTourism Industry Author:Charles Landry
“It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.” WantWellsIdeasCausesTermCompanyCreativityDoubtMagicDevelopmentLogicInnovationConfusionFormulasUnlikelyInnovativeJuxtapositionSpinner Author:James Dyson
“Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.” WantPoliticalSongTermCreativityIssuesSacrificeInvolvedMessagesMusicianEnvironmentalGuitarActivismGet InvolvedPopulistEnvironmental IssuesPolitical Activism Author:Eyvind Kang
“We live in a society right now which is the last phase of the ecosystem in terms of the old entertainment value, or the old entertainment construction, which is we've gone down to this instant gratification, instant numbers, instant understanding, instant. But it's like the exact - it has perfected itself to the instant click, when, in a way, creativity originates as a much more complex beast. So we now have to reinvent a new canvas where we can indulge in it. And that's where the digital revolution creates a whole new ecosystem of entertainment.” WayWholeLastsValuesUnderstandingTermNumbersCreativityGoneRevolutionRight NowComplexesEntertainmentInstantBeastDigitalConstructionPhasesCanvasIndulgeGratificationClicksEcosystemsIndulge InInstant GratificationDigital Revolution Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“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
“We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this in terms of creativity. Look at the state of people at 65. How many of them become creative after having to survive in the money culture?” PeopleLooksStatesCultureTermCreativityCreativeCostDemandRealisticBrutal Author:Michael Ventura
“I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to exercise freedom, that this is not a government that allows you to give, that allows you to explore, and doesn't dampen your own creativity - in the broadest sense - with a lot of dictums or dogmas or restraints. So, insofar as we can remain a free country that allows for the interplay of personal energies. I think this is still a country that is not only working towards a dream, but actually is the dream in action.” PeopleThinkingGivingBelieveStillsCountryDreamGovernmentActionEnergyTermCreativityExerciseAmerican DreamDogmaRestraintI Still BelieveFree Country Author:John Updike
“This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been used to commodify and reduce black creativity, and also to appropriate and sell it. That's what John Coltrane said in an interview with a Japanese journalist: "Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist." And he's treated as one of the central figures in the history of jazz. So if he rejected it, then why is it weird when I do it? I'm in the tradition!” BlackTermCreativityTraditionJazzJournalistRejectedColtrane Author:Vijay Iyer
“Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.” ThinkingIdeasTermCreativityCreativeTalentSkillsMysticalCreative Thinking Author:Edward de Bono