“Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.” WorldTwoIdeasTogetherCreativityRocksAround The WorldFlamesSparksSatisfyingNew Ideas Author:Jonah Lehrer
“I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.” PeopleThinkingIdeasCreativity Author:Melanie Laurent
“I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.” BelieveIdeasShowsI BelieveCreativityEnvironmentHavensIdealsCreatorI Believe InDevelopingOfferingNurturingEnablingCirque Du Soleil Author:Guy Laliberte
“Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.” LittlesIdeasSelfLightCultureCommonChristianityCreativityFateShareAppreciateArtisticTragicNarcissismParadigmNarcissusArtistic CreativityGod NatureTragic Fate Author:John Walford
“Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!” IdeasSimpleCreativityInnovationComplexesIngenuity Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“Problems are hidden opportunities and constraints can actually boost creativity. If you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a tendency to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.” PeopleIfsWayWantMindWellsIdeasReasonProblemOpportunityResultsDealsCreativityImpossibleCrazyFinalsTendenciesOpponentsAlliesConstraintsBoostMost AmazingCrazy Ideas Author:Martin Villeneuve
“Infinite Mind will put ideas into your mind, words into your mouth, creativity into your hands, boundless opportunity before you, and guiding light on your way.” WayMindIdeasHandsLightOpportunityCreativityMouthsInfiniteBoundlessGuiding Light Author:Eric Butterworth
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.” IdeasFunnyCreativityGeniusDepressionMadnessInnovationMixturesBipolarGenius And Madness Author:Aristotle
“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.” IdeasCreativityInnovationTolerateInabilityAmbiguityNeuroticNeurosisAmbiguousMoral Ambiguity Author:Sigmund Freud
“I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsMindMayIdeasCreativityCreativeGratitudeDrugClaimsSellsAddWanderExpertsBe CreativeGreat Idea Author:Hal Elrod
“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldFeelsMayLittlesIdeasSoulEndsJoySpiritWalksMistakeWonderCreativityCreativeTearsSorrowSpringLowsWeaknessInnovationMovedRoseResponseIllnessInvisibleHandleMental IllnessRealmsAutumnSunlightCreative PeopleEccentric Author:Duncan Long
“Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.” IdeasSchoolCultureCompanyCreativityFashionSolitudeAchievementGregariousGroupthink Author:Susan Cain
“Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.” KnowsGivingArtIdeasFormCreativityAirMysteryInspiredPatternsEncountersNew Ideas Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.” IfsMayIdeasReasonProblemSidesAbilityMoralCreativityProgressConflictConsequenceTestsPracticalsHandleConsistencyBettermentAdequacy Author:Rudolph Rummel
“The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."” IdeasImaginationCreativityCreativeScientistNew IdeasIntuitiveVividPioneersDeductionsCreative ImaginationVivid Imagination Author:Max Planck
“Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.” WorldMadeIdeasDreamDesireSimpleCreativitySupportGenerationsPossibilityPromiseFinancialEmpoweringGroundedPencilsHeartfeltSimple IdeasFinancial Support Author:Adam Braun
“Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.” IdeasCreativityFootballWho I Am Author:Dhani Jones
“The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right-doing. If we can answer 'yes' to the question. 'Is my self-worth as strong as my self-critic?' then we are ready to engage our creative expression.” IfsIdeasSelfMovingIndividualStrongAnswersCreativityCreativeFieldsReadyExpressionCriticsSelf WorthCreative ExpressionMy Self WorthMoving Out Author:Angeles Arrien
“In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.” MadeIdeasInterestingCreativityIdealsStructureDebateRationalHumanistMainstreamNew IdeasCentreUncontrollableIdeas And CreativityCourtiers Author:John Ralston Saul
“What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.” IdeasActionCreativityCreatingInnovationLacking Author:Theodore Levitt
“While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks.” IdeasHappensProcessCreativityBrilliantTinyReactionsChainsSparksFlashExecutingChain Reactions Author:R. Keith Sawyer