My favourite quotes on creativity
Creativity means different things to different people. Here are a few popular definitions of creativity.
- Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties: Gail Sheehy
- Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun: Mary Lou Cook
- Creativity (or “creativeness”) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity
And here is how i define creativity: ‘Creativity is the ability to think of something for the first time’. How do you define creativity?
Here are my favourite quotes on creativity. Please share your favourites in the comments section below.
There is no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Thomas Disch
Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
Albert Einstein
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
Pablo Picasso
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Jean Piaget
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers
Jean Caldwell
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Ursula K. LeGuin
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Rita Mae Brown
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
John W. Gardner
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
Mary-Claire King
There are two keys to being creatively productive. One is not being daunted by one’s fear of failure. the second is sheer perseverance.
Abe Tannenbaum
The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn’t need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.
Linus Pauling
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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