“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.” IndividualSocialImaginationAcceptingCreativityCreativeCapableCapacityPressureCaughtIntuitionAssumptionQuestioningPeer PressureSocial PressureFalse Assumptions Author:John W. Gardner
“Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.” HumansProblemHappensSocialCreativityEconomicKeysCapacityThings HappenUnlimitedMake Things HappenEconomic Problems Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.” FeelsWarBodySocialWatchesCreativityViolenceMediaTelevisionNewsAwakeningNewspapersNervousSensitiveConsideringBreakthroughDissentBreakdownFiltersNervous SystemTelevision NewsNewsworthy Book:Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
“Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.” PeopleNeedsIdeasMightAbleSocialChallengesCreativityImagineRiskDesignWillingDisciplineBrilliantPersistenceDreamerInnovatorsBrilliant IdeasDisagreeablePreconceptions Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.” HumansMayHas BeensPoetryLiteratureSocialCreativityCapacitySelectionRandomness Author:Geoffrey Miller