Quotes About Creativity

It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough—that it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.

Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.

Looking back at a century that will be remembered for its willingness to break classical bonds, and looking ahead to an era that seeks to nurture the creativity needed for scientific innovation, one person stands out as a paramount icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity, and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius.

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorize stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

Freedom was a foundation for creativity.

tinker with a lot of contraptions. A few months after Franklin returned to Philadelphia, Dr. Spencer came

Por mucho énfasis que debamos poner en el liderazgo, la organización y el trabajo en equipo, el individuo sigue siendo determinante, de una importancia suprema. Las ideas y los conceptos creativos nacen en la mente de una sola persona.

The ideas that come from me and my team would have been completely irrelevant, nowhere, if Steve hadn't been here to push us, work with us, and drive through all the resistance to turn our ideas into products.

It is important to foster individuality," he said, "for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

Walter Isaacson

Genius starts individual brilliance. It requires singular vision. But executing it often entails working with others. Innovation is a team sport. Creativity is a collaborative endeavor.

Those who have never faced disease and suffering have no need of producing beauty

bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

Is it possible to be wiser on the page than you are in life? I'm hoping so.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.

If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life.

One thing I had learned in high school was that in sports you always had to move in a direction that your opponent did not expect. From Ping-Pong to prizefighting, the man with the unexpected moves was the player most likely to win.

Her experience in life was limited and so she fought battles in an imaginary arena

I found out a lot about my father as he regaled my wife. He'd learned how to be a potter in a small village in Bolivia. There, working on a kick-wheel in a shack the size of an outhouse, he started thinking about the few novels he'd read.

Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the creatures of his own imagination with the females of actual life.

Don't be a yellow starburst be a pink one.

I like it when people say, 'Gee, that's a pretty good-looking painting.' But it's my painting, and when somebody says, 'Why don't you use more red instead of blue?' Good-bye. It's my painting. And I don't care what they sell it for. The painting itself will never be finished. That's one of the great things about it.

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.