“Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.” SoulNightDarkViewsCreativityMajorityCrowdsChosenSpellsAvenuesFloweringProximity Book:A Passion for Truth Source: A Passion for Truth
“Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.” PeopleWorldWantYearsMindKindStatesCharacterAbleCertainChanceViewsVisionCreativityShareMetsAccountsPoeticState Of MindGesturesEvidentFascinationVisionariesParanoiaParanoid Author:Louis Simpson
“So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.” NeedsMindHas BeensStillsHomeLostFunHoursDifferencesViewsSecretCreativityChangedDistanceHolidayLuggageHassleLouvreHome HomeMachu PicchuView From The Top Author:Jonah Lehrer
“That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.” MayCharacterFactsViewsCommonFictionCreativityDrawsFlyingFaithfulButterflySquirrelsCaterpillarsVariance Book:The Confidence-man: His Masquerade Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade
“If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.” PeopleIfsWorldLittlesImportantJobsArtistViewsCreativityRichHonestyFiguresHeroNeededOur WorldEntertainingCitizenshipRich PeopleWorld ViewImportant Jobs Author:Vaclav Havel
“All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.” LongPastViewsCreativityPracticeIndustryManagementSacredTiredLegacyExecutives Author:Gary Hamel
“To most observers, innovation is a solitary process that requires creativity and genius, perhaps even greatness. It can't, in their view, be managed or predicted, just hoped for and, perhaps, facilitated. But for me innovation was and still is more than that. It was a battle in the marketplace between innovators or attackers trying to make money by changing the order of things, and defenders protecting their cash flow.” TryingStillsOrderProcessViewsCreativityGreatnessGeniusBattleFlowInnovationMaking MoneyCashSolitaryObserversMarketplaceDefendersInnovatorsCash Flow Author:Richard J. Foster
“I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.” SometimesSeemsViewsCreativityStruggleBurdenObstaclesPoint Of ViewSuspectsFutilitySinfulness Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!” PeoplePresidentViewsBusinessVisionCreativityEconomyReturnGeniusEntrepreneurshipEnterprisePresident ObamaFree EnterpriseFree Economy Author:Mitt Romney
“Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.” ThinkingWayMaySometimesProblemActionCertainCoursesChangeViewsAttitudeSituationCreativityPsychologySolutionsObviousAnother WayProblems And SolutionsSolution To A Problem Book:The use of lateral thinking Source: The use of lateral thinking
“And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.” IfsThinkingChildrenMomentsSimpleViewsCreativityMagicMissingPatternsCommittedPoint Of ViewInnocentInnocenceFadesLockedRespondingJudgmentalFreshnessBlockedNever Fade Author:Michael Jackson