Quotes About Creativity

The premortem has two main advantages: it overcomes the groupthink that affects many teams once a decision appears to have been made, and it unleashes the imagination of knowledgeable individuals in a much-needed direction.

SPEAKING OF PRIMING "The sight of all these people in uniforms does not prime creativity." "The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works." "They were primed to find flaws, and this is exactly what they found." "His System 1 constructed a story, and his System 2 believed it. It happens to all of us." "I made myself smile and I'm actually feeling better!

Amos and I enjoyed the extraordinary good fortune of a shared mind that was superior to our individual minds and of a relationship that made our work fun as well as productive.

but the chapters we wrote first were probably easier than others

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it." P

Daniel Kahneman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers of our time.

Aber seien wir doch ehrlich, es ist ein seltsamer Beruf. Ein wenig lächerlich für einen erwachsenen Menschen. Sie sitzen daheim und denken sich Geschichten aus, die nie passiert sind.

Erzählen, das bedeutet einen Bogen spannen, wo zunächst keiner ist, den Entwicklungen Struktur und Folgerichtigkeit gerade dort verleihen, wo die Wirklichkeit nichts davon bietet.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

Punctuation, is? fun!

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

We must keep in mind Edward Said's important warning that the first reality for thinking creatively (and for us, theologically) about exile is that it is a form of disaster and trauma that is inseparably connected to human actions related to power, dominance, and brutality: 'To think of exile as beneficial, as a spur to humanism or to creativity, is to belittle its mutliations.' (p. 21)

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

To see is to experience the world as it is, to remember is to experience the world as it was, but to imagine-ah, to imagine is to experience the world as it isn't and has never been, but as it might be. The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future.

We use our eyes to look into space and our imaginations to look into time.

Memory uses the filling-in trick, but imagination is the filling-in trick

My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams," Mr. Plumbean said. - The Big Orange Splot

A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means to his pleasure, and soon you will not be able to keep him from it.

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about… The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.

The children became their reciprocal angels: readers.

Si immagini da qualche parte in un romanzo, questo la aiuterà a lottare contro la paura.

Quando la vita è quello che è, il romanzo ha il dovere di essere quello che vuole.

Niente televisione, ma pianoforte dalle cinque alle sei, chitarra dalle sei alle sette, danza il mercoledì, judo, tennis, scherma il sabato, sci di fondo ai primi fiocchi di neve, corso di vela ai primi raggi di sole, ceramica i giorni di pioggia, viaggio in Inghilterra, ginnastica ritmica... Nessunissima possibilità lasciata al più piccolo quarto d'ora di faccia a faccia con se stesso.