Quotes on Creativity

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies. So we deliberately put obstacles in our path - barriers that will inspire us. We disciple ourselves as to what to do, while we're boundless as to how to do it.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Art is what you can get away with.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there.

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.