Quotes About Creativity

And when people exhaust their self-control, what they're exhausting are the mental muscles needed to think creatively, to focus, to inhibit their impulses, and to persist in the face of frustration or failure. In other words, they're exhausting precisely the mental muscles needed to make a big change.

The point of the Clinics is not to wow you with our creative genius, and it's fortunate for readers and authors alike that this is not the goal, because we are not creative geniuses. The point is simply to model the process of making ideas stickier. In contrast to traditional disclaimers, this is something you should try at home. Think about each message and consider how you would improve it using the principles in the book.

that's the charge for all of us: to defy the forgettable flatness of everyday work and life by creating a few precious moments.

We should make an effort to praise ingenious solutions to customers' problems.

When you use analogies—when you find someone who has solved your problem—you can take your pick from the world's buffet of solutions. But when you don't bother to look, you've got to cook up the answer yourself. Every time. That may be possible, but it's not wise, and it certainly ain't speedy. DUNBAR

What should a Pegasus person do in this situation?

by disrupting routines, we can create more peaks.

One of IDEO's designers even sketched out a "project mood chart" that predicts how people will feel at different phases of a project. It's a U-shaped curve with a peak of positive emotion, labeled "hope," at the beginning, and a second peak of positive emotion, labeled "confidence," at the end. In between the two peaks is a negative emotional valley labeled "insight.

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

To get someone's attention break a pattern of thinking.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it's … makin' ART.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job there's always, always, always another.

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe.

On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one, last, good time. I doubted I was up to the task, but regardless, I entered from the rear, just to give myself the slightest mental edge.

It's not Art. And Art is not Design.

I've been drawing shoes,' said Sketch, evoking a fireman who's been searching the smoking hulks of scorched buildings for burn victims, 'and it's been going feetingly.

Deep inside every customer is a treasure trove of half-baked ideas, creative capacity, and ingenuity-in-the-raw.

In the world of innovation, wacky wins; logical loses.

A partnership is the paramount confederation for creating and nurturing innovation.