Creativity
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- It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.
- It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.Herman MelvilleSourced
- It is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough; it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.
- It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
- Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
- Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
- Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Look in thy heart and write.
- Many creative people have a certain degree of dissatisfaction with the status quo, the established way. If you look at things differently, you are thought of as 'different.' In turn, 'different' people are thought to be 'mad.'
- Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
- No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you.
- Nothing is particularly hard if you subdivide it into small jobs.
- Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you.
- One must have chaos within one to give birth to a dancing star.
- One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination.
- Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.
- Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.James Fitzjames StephenSourced
- Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes.
- Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes. "If you want to astonish the whole world," said Rahel, "tell the simple truth."
- Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new.
- Productivity comes from making habits of doing. Creativity comes from breaking habits of thinking. Innovation comes from toggling between novel ideas and familiar routines.
- Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
- Risk is the companion of innovation. As the Chinese proverb says, ”Unless you enter the tiger’s den you cannot take the cubs.”
- Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live.
- Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.
- Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
- Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll do your part, God will begin to do what only He can do: He'll make your box bigger.
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories, but your own creative individuality alone must decide.
- The artist's vocation is to send light into the depths of the human heart.
- The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.
- The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.
- The future is not something you wait for. It’s something your create.
- The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.
- The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
- The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.
- The last thing that we discover in writing a book is to know what to put at the beginning.
- The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.