Quotes About Creativity

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." Instead, creators ought to build a car and see if customers will drive it.

Minority viewpoints are important, not because they tend to prevail but because they stimulate divergent attention and thought, " finds Berkeley psychologist Charlan Nemeth, one of the world's leading experts on group decisions. "As a result, even when they are wrong they contribute to the detection of novel solutions and decisions that, on balance, are qualitatively better". Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong.

Originality is what everybody wants, but there's a sweet spot," Rob Minkoff explains. "If it's not original enough, it's boring or trite. If it's too original, it may be hard for the audience to understand. The goal is to push the envelope, not tear the envelope.

Our companies, communities, and countries don't necessarily suffer from a shortage of novel ideas. They're constrained by a shortage of people who excel at choosing the right novel ideas.

Being original doesn't require being first. It just means being different and better.

Becoming Original is not the easiest path in the Pursuit of Happiness, but it leaves us perfectly poised for the Happiness of Pursuit.

If you wanted to be original the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

If you want to be original, "the most important possible thing you could do," says Ira Glass, the producer of This American Life and the podcast Serial, "is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores.

Knowledge is best sought from experts, but creativity and wisdom can come from anywhere.

Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another. By covering our bases financially, we escape the pressure to publish half-baked books, sell shoddy art, or launch untested businesses. When

Creating different versions of a drawing of story can encourage kids the value of revising their ideas. Getting input from others can also help them to continue evolving their standards. They might learn to embrace confusion and stop expecting perfection on the first try.

The people who wait until the last minute are so busy goofing off that they don't have any new ideas. And on the flip side, the people who race in are in such a frenzy of anxiety that they don't have original thoughts either.

Don't criticize yourself while you're creating.

Ser original no implica ser el primero... solo significa ser diferente y mejor.

To become an original, we have to be willing to take some risks. When we go against the grain to upend time-honored traditions, we can never be certain that we will succeed. As journalist Robert Quillen wrote, "Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second and keep one foot on first base.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new

To be an original one must not only come up with new ideas but also Sherpa those ideas into the wider world, battling skepticism, incomprehension, and outright hostility in the process. . . .

Kind of gay? I wanted to say. Do you have any notion how many homosexuals sweated their ass off on the dance floor to make this soaring bit of derivative trash possible? How many died of AIDS, OD'd, or went broke on the way to that girl from Texas cutting a deal...

the things that make us human: freedom, art, choice, identity, expression, love. And

Certainly a rope and pulley would have worked best. But not everybody around here went to Kim Il Sung University.

history teacher allows him to write his reports graphically. (San Francisco!)

the reports of which were so harrowing—forced abortions, amputations, communal executions—that I invented the blood harvesting as a less savage stand-in

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.