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When you can see what everybody else has seen but be thinking what nobody else has thought, you will have discovered your creativity
In creativity there is as much, if not more, to be gained from the journey as there is from reaching the destination.
Things are there to be tried, and unless we try them how will we ever get to know whether or not they work?
We carry with us at any time the most sophisticated piece of technology that exists - the human mind. It is this that dreamed up and made possible everything from the safety pin to interplanetary travel.
Every failure contains hidden asstes. If one can face up to it and study it imaginatively, it will provide the raw information for new creativity.
With each new creative departure, one should leave with two pieces of luggage - the desire to have fun, and the desire to discover as much as possible along the way.
Franklin P. Adams
“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”
Howard Aiken
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.”
Aristotle
“The soul never thinks without a mental picture.”
Francis Bacon
“Knowledge itself is power.”
Frederick G. Banting
“No one had ever had an idea in a dress suit.”
Richard V. Clemence
“…originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Thomas Edison
“There ain’t no rules around here. We’re trying to accomplish something.”
“There’s a way to do it better – find it.”
Albert Einstein
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“You cannot solve the problem with the same kind of thinking that has created the problem.”
“I think and think for months, for years; 99 times the conclusion is wrong, but the hundredth it is right.”
“It’s not that I’m am so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
“An intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with certain alienated majesty.”
Harvey Firestone
“Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.”
Buckminster Fuller
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
Howard Gardner
“There are many people who have no desire to do anything differently than anyone else. And that’s fine. We need to have people who are technically expert: people who play wonderful third fiddle, if you will, or people who carry out what we call normal experiments in science (ones which sort of fill in the tiny little holes which were left by the great creators). But some people want to push beyond that. And that’s a personality kind of thing. It’s nothing to do with how smart they are. It’s whether they’re the kinds of people who really want to put themselves on the line and take a risk and face the void of going beyond where other people have gone who have any chance of being creative.”
Baltasar Gracian
“Begin with another’s to end with your own.”
Duane Alan Hahn
“Concern over criticism clogs creativity.”
Robert Heinlein
“If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you’ll abort it if you do. Be patient and you’ll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.”
Heroclitus
“We are most truly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of a child at play.”
Eric Hoffer
“The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and most compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capabilities and talents.”
“The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.”
“It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
Barry Jones
“If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.”
James Joyce
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
Arthur Koestler
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”
Walter Lippman
“When all think alike, then no one is thinking.”
Carol Lloyd
“Fear collides with our most conservative self and allows us to stop before we try, dismiss before we think, mock before we imagine.”
George Lois
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”
H.L. Mencken
“It is only doubt that creates. It is the minority that counts.”
A. Milne
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
Charles Mingus
“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.”
Sir Isaac Newton
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
Charles Parkhurst
“All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.”
Linus Pauling
“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
Pablo Picasso
“Good taste is the enemy of creativity.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Mary Richards
“We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will give us no peace until we do.”
Mark Twain
“You can’t depend on your eyes when you imagination is out of focus.”
Unknown
“He who never walks except where he sees other men’s tracks will make no discoveries.”
“You cannot be a creator AND a victim.”
“You will not find what you do not live.”
“It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you’re not.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
Oscar Wilde
“All great ideas are dangerous.”
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“The truth is more important than the facts."
Martin Buber
“Play is the exultation of the possible.”
Carl Jung
“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”
Lynda Barry
“To be able to stand not knowing long enough for something alive to take shape!”