Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
Charles EamesRead
That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Creative confidence is the blend of generating ideas and having the bravery to act on them.
This quote by Tom Kelley emphasizes the integral relationship between creativity and confidence. It suggests that being creative is not only about generating innovative ideas but also about having the courage to implement these ideas, despite the risks or uncertainties involved. This combination empowers individuals to push boundaries and explore new possibilities.
Themes
CreativityConfidenceCourageInnovationIdeas
In practice
Example use cases
In a team meeting when discussing new product ideas.
Similar quotes
There are some projects where you have to just start doing it, and, after a while, the show starts telling you what it wants to be. You put your spirit in and, after a while, something bigger takes over, and it turns out to be much more fun and creative than what it was at the beginning.
Brian Stokes MitchellRead
So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.
Peter WeirRead
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
Kazuo IshiguroRead
I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
Peter GabrielRead
It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
Amy PoehlerRead