When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as do the ordinary people, but to fulfill it in its...
Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the Innovator’s Dilemma: the fact that large traditional firms find it rati...
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take
In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover...
Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.
In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
I am a choreographer. A choreographer is a poet. I do not create. God creates. I assemble and I will steal from everywhere to do it.
The life of the creative man is led directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. You...
Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.
Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.
Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and distorted, with nary a sliver of light, yet they serv...
Your only limitation is the limits of your imagination so dream big.
Creativity is applied Imagination
The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings."--(psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the state of being he calls "flow")
Dreams are fuel for creation.
Instead of asking why they left,now I ask,what beauty will I createin the space the no longeroccupy?