25. Creativity
Creativity
1) Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Steve Jobs
2) Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
- Albert Einstein
3) Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- George Bernard Shaw
4) Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, you’re true self comes out.
- Tina Turner
5) The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
- Oscar Wilde
6) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
7) Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
8) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
9) Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso
10) 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.
- Seth Godin
11) Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work.
- James Ogilvy
12) Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test… Lots of things Made the first Mac in I984 a piece of crap – but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.
- Guy Kawasaki
13) Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
- Pablo Picasso
14) Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
- Steve Jobs
15) The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
- Pablo Picasso
16) Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
- Earl Nightingale
17) The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau
18) You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.
- Sean Connery
19) To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
- Pablo Picasso
20) Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
- Albert Einstein