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To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.
Sep 10, 2025
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
Your Life is always a result of your thoughts about it-including your obviously creative thought that you seldom get what you choose.
Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come, and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought.
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.
When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.
Routine kills creative thought.
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.
creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write, 'Friday, Nov. 8. Three o'clock. Have a genius creative idea.'
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Life is about trying things to see if they work.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.