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"The creative thinker is flexible and adaptable and prepared to rearrange his thinking."
--A.J. Cropley
"The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas."--Abe Tannenbaum
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."--Albert Einstein
"A happy brain is a balanced brain. And a laughing brain is a creative brain."--Anne Wilson Schaef
"There is an artist within each person, and everybody has the capacity to find creative genius in themselves."--Annette Moser-Wellman
"Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."--Arthur Koestler
"The creative act…does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills."--Arthur Koestler
"We humans have not yet achieved our full creative potential primarily because every child’s creativity is not properly nurtured. The critical role of imagination, discovery, and creativity in a child’s education is only beginning to come to light and, even within the educational community, many still do not appreciate or realize its vital importance."--Ashfaq Ishaq
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."--Carl Jung
"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."--Carl Sagan
"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without."--Cecil B. DeMille
"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."--Dee Hock
"There are no problems—only opportunities to be creative."--Dorye Roettger
"Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field.... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative."--Eckhart Tolle
"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."--Edward de Bono
"Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits."--Edward de Bono
"Creativity is the ability to make or otherwise bring into existence something new, whether a new solution to a problem, a new method or device, or a new artistic method or form."--Encylopedia Britannica Online
"Creativity is discontent translated into arts."--Eric Hoffer
"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."--Erich Fromm
"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."--Erich Fromm
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."--Franklin Roosevelt
"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties."--Gail Sheehy
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by
originality overcomes everything."--George Lois
"It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering."--Gordon Mackenzie
"The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else."--Harold R. McAlindon
"The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation, lasts."--Henry Moore
"We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies--in the minds of those closest to the work."--Jack Welch
"Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face."--James D. Finley
"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."--James Russell Lowell
"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done--men who are creative, inventive and discoverers."--Jean Piaget
"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive."--John Cassavetes
"The crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value is creativity."--John Kao
"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."--John W. Gardner
"Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way."--Joseph Badaracco
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."--Joseph Chilton Pierce
"In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don’t give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them — to restock the trout pond, so to speak."--Julia Cameron
"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."--Mae Jemison
"Many people are inventive, sometimes cleverly so. But real creativity begins with the drive to work on and on and on."--Margueritte Harmon Bro
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."--Mary Lou Cook
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."--Mary Lou Cook
"You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."--Maya Angelou
"Creative geniuses do not wait for the gifts of chance; instead, they actively seek the accidental discovery."--Michael Michalko
"Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one."--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"For better or for worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity. The result will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real."--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life."--Miles Davis
"Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar."--Nnamdi Azikiwe
"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence."--Norman Podhoretz
"Ah good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."--Pablo Picasso
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!"--Peter McWilliams
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource."--Richard Florida
"Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity."--Richard Laurence Peterson
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."--Rita Mae Brown
"The most important developments in civilization have come through the creative process, but ironically, most people have not been taught to be creative."--Robert Fritz
"The most powerful way to develop creativity in your students is to be a role model. Children develop creativity not when you tell them to, but when you show them."--Robert J. Sternberg
"Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem."--Rollo May
"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes."--Scott Adams
"Creativity is creating something out of nothing by asking BIG questions."--Scott Ginsberg
"Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist."--Thomas Disch
"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth."--Tom Barrett
"Training in creativity is important, in general. But it is absolutely essential in this age of intangibles and intellectual capital."--Tom Peters
"Creativity is a habit and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That’s it in a nutshell"--Twyla Tharp
"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."--Warren G. Bennis
"Creative students lead richer lives and, in the longer term, make a valuable contribution to society. Surely those are reasons enough to bother changing our educational system."--Wayne Morris
"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."--William Plomer
