“My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.” UsedFatherStuffCreativityWindowFruitStoresFlash Author:Frank Gehry
“Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.” ThinkingUsedProcessCreativityInformationSkillsMathematicsInsightAcquireLateral ThinkingRestructuring Book:Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step Source: Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step
“In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.” KnowsWorldKindHardKidsUsedChoicesIndividualCreativityTechnologyEasierEmpowermentToolsAccessUsed To BeBe KindIndividual Choice Author:Steve Ballmer
“I basically expect anything. Isn't that wild? I used to surprise myself a lot: certain moves, how I'd get out of trouble. But at some point, you accept the talent that you have, you accept your creativity.” MovingUsedCertainAcceptingCreativityTroubleTalentSurprise Author:Michael Jordan
“We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.” PeopleWaySeemsUsedBlackForgetLeaderCreativityBattleBlack PeopleDeniedLiteracyIlliteracyConveying Author:Nikki Giovanni
“My brother (Bruno Mars) is as smart as he is because a lot of things he's doing, creativity wise, our Dad used to do. Things my father used to do visually and musically. I see a lot of my father's influence in both of us.” UsedFatherCreativityWiseInfluenceBrotherDadSmartMy BrotherMars Author:Eric Hernandez
“My parents would tell us to go outside and play or to do creative stuff, but television was very limited. So we used our own creativity to entertain ourselves. We were out in the woods a lot making huts and playing horses.” PlayUsedStuffParentCreativityCreativeTelevisionHorseWoodsHuts Author:Jan Brett
“I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further from my other creative selves. I used to be able to see myself doing many things and sometimes I still long for a job that involves less pressure and grappling with people but, as you say, I am one of the lucky ones so I try to just focus on feeling lucky and carry on!” PeopleWayFeelsTryingYearsLongStillsSelfSometimesFeelingsAbleJobsUsedCreativityCreativeFocusExerciseLuckyPressureUsed To BeSpecializationGrappling Author:Ani DiFranco
“In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to be, anyway - the most innovative country, because we weren't restricted by artificial limitations. We are made to be wild, free, and creative, and this clearly was a symbol of that kind of energy in America.” KindMadeCountryAmericaUsedEnergyCreativityCreativeAspectIncludingUsed To BeSymbolsLimitationArtificialInnovativeWild Free Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that all the time in the theater. Retelling stories is what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite.” HumansDoneStoriesUsedSpiritCreativitySittingNegativeOppositesTheaterUsed To BeHuman SpiritRemakesSitting AroundBeing DoneRetellingCampfire Author:Joel Kinnaman
“Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.” HumansUsedFoundExistenceCreativityFirePressesWheelsPrintingVaccinesPrinting PressPolioPolio Vaccine Author:Naveen Jain
“Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is....Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new voice and creativity. Right now people need to be more places at once....so whatever can get people to the next level to be efficient is how technology is going to be used......The danger is if people are relying too much on the machines, that new mind and new voice always has to come from within.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingMindArtUsedArtistNextVoiceLevelsCreativityTechnologyToo MuchDangerRight NowReflectionArt IsMachinesHip HopHipsHopsEfficientNext Level Author:Del tha Funkee Homosapien
“To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.” BeautifulUsedGivenCreativityClothesStandingBeautiful ThingsCastingReinsShowing UpStanding There Author:Erin Wasson
“Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.” UsedIndividualLevelsConsciousnessCreativityComposing Author:Eyvind Kang
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” MenWorldMeanRealityUsedDealsCreativityPracticeLearningDemocracyGenerationsMen And WomenCriticismLogicFunctionTransformationInstrumentsEducationalConformityIntegrationNonconformityFacilitateYounger GenerationPedagogyPedagogy Of The OppressedAdult EducationConformity And IndividualityEducation And FreedomAdult Learning Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.” PeopleHumansLittlesArtSelfYoungUsedArtistHateCreativityCreativeModernFieldsArt IsAreasI HateLeavingDisasterAdvertisingObsessedAmbitiousHuman HistoryGraffitiModern ArtSelf ObsessedStreet ArtThings I HateWall And PieceGraffiti ArtGraffiti ArtistPeople Leaving Author:Banksy
“It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.” InspirationalUsedWalksCreativityWonderfulCreation Author:Lady Bird Johnson