Quotes About Creativity

Let's come up with as many ideas as possible, and then put them under scrutiny, and basically try to kill them off, and if they were unkillable, then we'd keep going with them.

If you hit two crappy pages, even if you never use them, you can feel "successful" for the day. Sometimes you barely eke out two pages, and they are truly terrible. But at least 50% of the time, you'll produce perhaps 5, 10, or even—on the rare miracle day—20 pages. Draft ugly and edit pretty.

Throw it all up on the wall and see what sticks.

Es esencial perderse y cambiar de planes de vez en cuando. Es una fuente de creatividad y perspectiva. El peligro de los esquemas, los ayudantes capaces y la planificación es que puedes acabar viviendo la vida como si estuviera planeada. Y si haces eso, es posible que tu potencial no consiga superar tus expectativas.»

La productividad es para los robots. Si los humanos van a ser realmente buenos en algo será haciendo preguntas, siendo creativos y teniendo experiencias.»

Kurt Vonnegut said about his process: "When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth." Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. And you are not alone.

And by "unreasonably effective," I mean something quite specific: Something is unreasonably effective if it seems to be useful outside the scope of its assumptions, outside the scope of the context in/for which it was developed.

You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.

It's good not to follow the herd. Go the other way. If everyone's going that way, you go this other way. You're gonna stumble, but you're also gonna stumble upon an idea no one came up with. . . .

Peter expands: "I think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.

Lo diferente es mejor cuando es más efectivo o más divertido. Si todo el mundo plantea o resuelve un problema de una determinada manera con resultados deficientes, es hora de preguntarse: ¿qué pasaría si hiciera lo contrario? No sigas un modelo que no funcione. Si la receta es una porquería, no importa lo buen cocinero que seas.

Invierte un poco más de tiempo en hacerlo un poco más humano o (dependiendo del negocio) un poco más divertido, un poco más diferente, o un poco más lo que sea. Valdrá la pena, y ése es mi estímulo.» (Véase el mejor

Jan Kounen's "Ayahuasca Visions" on YouTube.

1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly] was one of the seminal articles that inspired me to really build amazing material, rather than just recycling what else was out there. I knew that if I had 1,000 true fans, then not only would I be able to live doing the things I wanted, but I would be able to turn that into 2,000, 5,000, 10,000—and that is exactly what happened.

qué genios tan torturados son. No me convence…

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." –Oscar Wilde Irish writer, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

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A problem is a terrible thing to waste." This is highly related to the "scratch your own itch" thread that pops up throughout this book. Peter expands: "I think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

May all of your creations have just the right flavor,

you put creativity in everything, everything becomes available to you.' . . .

Creo que debemos enseñar a los chicos dos cosas: 1) a dirigir, y 2) a resolver problemas interesantes. Porque la cuestión es que hay un montón de países en la Tierra con gente dispuesta a ser obediente y a trabajar más por menos dinero que nosotros.

Morning pages don't need to solve your problems. They simply need to get them out of your head, where they'll otherwise bounce around all day like a bullet ricocheting inside your skull. Could bitching and moaning on paper for 5 minutes each morning change your life? As crazy as it seems, I believe the answer is yes.

En el entorno equivocado, la creatividad se resiente.