Quotes About Creativity

Ideas are things to play with.

Daily Law: Do something today that you used to love doing as a kid. Try to reconnect with your impulse voices. Robert Greene in conversation at Live Talks Los Angeles, February 11, 2019

In moving toward mastery, you are bringing your mind closer to reality and to life itself. Anything that is alive is in a continual state of change and movement. The moment that you rest, thinking that you have attained the level you desire, a part of your mind enters a phase of decay. You lose your hard-earned creativity and others begin to sense it. This is a power and intelligence that must be continually renewed or it will die.

In the absence of genius there is always craftsmanship.

I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.

You may object that this was corny, but don't forget that (a) corn sells by the ton, (b) that I only had two weeks to rework an entire manuscript, and (c) that it sure a hell was a lot better than starting with the derivation of the name Lang.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

all art is pain suffered and outlived

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism

I really didn't mean to steal it. Mr. Williams shook his head. He scratched at his chin nervously. Why not? That's what they're there for. Tunes belong to everybody. So do stories.

Minden mese és dallam varázslatból születik

The best management is sometimes less management or no management at all. William Coyne, who led 3M's Research and Development efforts for over a decade, believed a big part of his job was to leave his people alone and protect them from other curious executives. As he put it: 'After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing.

Hundreds of experiments show that encounters with rude, insulting, and demeaning people undermine others' performance—including their decision-making skills, productivity, creativity, and willingness to work a little harder and stay a little later to finish projects and to help coworkers who need their advice, skills, or emotional support.

Support a few crackpots, heretics, and dreamers, especially if they are wildly optimistic about their ideas.

Origami artists have made birds 1/64th of an inch long, and life-size elephants three yards high.

artists of the modern era have carried origami to unprecedented heights of realism and complexity.

rare is the schoolchild who has never folded a hat, boat, plane or the ubiquitous fortune-teller or "cootie-catcher.

Origami is the art of folding uncut sheets of paper into decorative objects such as birds or animals.

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.

Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat

More than once Nynaeve had been shocked at her own cruelty, even while she was delighted at her inventiveness.

It would be easier if this was a story, he thought. In

It could crush you, that despair. But the act of creating something—anything—fought back.