Creativity
There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world,
and that is an idea whose time is come.
-- Victor Hugo
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert
Einstein
The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates;
Einstein formulating a theory of relativity;
the housewife devising a new sauce for the meat,
a young author writing his first novel;
all of these are in terms of definition, Creative, and there is no attempt
to set them in some order of more or less Creative.
--
Carl Rogers
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or
doing it better.
-- John Updike
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a
butterfly.
-- Buckminster Fuller
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
-- Albert Einstein
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
-- Anna Freud
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he
grows up.
-- Pablo Picasso
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money;
it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than
you work.
-- Rita Mae Brown
Perhaps what we call genius has something to do with a learned state of
consciousness, a way of attending to the stream of mental experience.
Perhaps many more of us could hear inner melodies, find guidance and
inspiration, achieve breakthrough insight–if we would only pay more
attention to the fleeting images and the quiet intuitions presented to us by
the creative mind.
--
Willis Harmen
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money
-- Robert Collier
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money;
it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
-- Franklin Roosevelt
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten
the gift.
-- Albert Einstein
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
-- Nietzsche
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on
creating oneself endlessly.
-- Henri L. Bergson
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are
located in the same individual.
-- Arthur Koestler
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-- Erich Fromm
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and
human creations.
-- Albert Einstein
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making
exciting discoveries.
-- A.A. Milne
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