“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.” PeopleKnowsFeelsCareRunningPassionGrowsLosesBusinessCompanyVisionCreativeFiveMiddleProductsManagementDollarsBillionsThings To DoRight ThingLayersInherentEntityWho CaresCreative PeopleInsertMiddle Management Author:Steve Jobs
“I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.” IfsMindI CanIdeasSongCreativeFiveFieldsMonthsSixCome UpSix MonthsPlaying FieldsCreative MindTweak Author:Chris Brown
“Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.” KnowsWayWritingThreeCreativeFiveMiddleLeavingEdgesSentencesRoughBe CreativeNestsRough Edges Author:Cory Doctorow
“80% of all products and services that will be on the market in five years do not exist today. So therefore, always be innovative, always be creative, always think, 'What new products or services could I create, could I represent, could I joint venture?" Sometimes you can find someone else that has a fabulous product or service that you can use your existing business or resources to sell and you can double your income or sales in your business by selling somebody else's product to the same customers that are buying yours.” ThinkingYearsSometimesUseTodayCreativeFiveProductsResourcesSellsCustomersIncomeSellingFive YearsBuyingVentureBe CreativeFabulousInnovativeJointsNew ProductsJoint Ventures Author:Brian Tracy
“Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.” YearsHumansAgeCreativeEnvironmentFiveChangedBabySixAdultsCapacityActiveErasInteractionDiscoveringPersistExploringConformOur EnvironmentInventingChimpanzeesInvestigatingSix Year OldsSenilityIrrepressible Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“I became really creative around the time I started understanding that people could be creative with music and that that was allowed. I stated taking piano lessons at age five, but I never did what my piano teacher told me to do. I would just do whatever I wanted.” PeopleAgeWantedUnderstandingCreativeFiveTeacherLessonsPianoBe CreativePiano LessonPiano Teachers Author:Michael Angelakos
“You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. I figured out a way of working with it.” IfsThinkingWayWritingWellsIdeasWholeHappensMovingSongThreeCreativeFiveMinutesMeetingsStudiosBunchTraitsHookAdhdCreative IdeasAlways Moving Author:will.i.am
“I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.” TryingYearsI CanCreativeFiveMonthsFantasticComposingCreative Work Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.” PeopleIfsWayWantIdeasTogetherFightingRoomsCreativityCreativeFiveImpossibleSixSevenBe Creative Author:Adam Duritz