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Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.
Oct 1, 2025
If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.
I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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.
The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
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.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.
Life is about trying things to see if they work.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
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.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.