Quotes on Creativity

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Ideas are useless unless used.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

Don't hire a dog, then bark yourself

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and a very small portion of accumulated knowledge infused by other human beings. So in chess we can compare these two incompatible things and probably make projections into our future. Is there danger that the human mind will be overshadowed by the power of computers, or we can still survive?

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.