Creativity Quotes - Page 9

Love means to understand the drama that happens between the inner man and woman. It means to allow both the inner man and woman to find their creative roots and expression.

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

When you imagine and clearly articulate your goals in writing, you access the creative energy of your right brain. Imagination and creativity allow you to find solutions to problems that were not previously available to you and give your left brain an opportunity to be receptive to new ideas.

Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Play is just another version of work

Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else-that's how you'll get ahead.

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

we are continuing God’s work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and “unfold” creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God’s pattern of creative cultural development.

When creativity is seen as more important than facts, we will find ourselves in a world where problems are solved more often than spoken of.

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.