Quotes About Creativity

Envision what the path would be if the best answer lay inside the imagination of the customer.

In a judgment-free arena, there is an evident invitation to surface imaginative ideas, perspectives, and insights.

Let your co-creation partnership run free in the wild meadow of originality; it will be fenced in the stable of practicality soon enough.

Invite your customer to take risks in the pursuit of inspired innovation, and be your customer's net when they step onto that high wire.

Innovation dances to the sweet sound of a banjo. Banjo behavior makes people want to jump up and join in.

Your being in the middle of your imagination turned on is not like a boardroom; it's like a candy shop.

Co-creation partnerships are free-idea zones because they are neighborhoods of acceptance and goodness.

Doesn't the imagination always exaggerate—or diminish—truth?

He told me that visions of all he needed to write came to him at the oddest moments, forcing him to abandon other activities and write them down.

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art.

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art. That pretty much sums up my existence, she thinks.

Many people have discovered that mindfulness offers them a down-to-earth yet immediate way to connect with themselves. It is simple acceptance, described here as making friends with yourself. It is, as well, a means to unlock creativity and compassion. Meditation is a powerful technique for developing mindfulness, which can help us discover a way of being that is authentic, relaxed, and gentle. Meditation

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better.

The art is never about what you write about. The art is about how you write about what you write about.

Talent is not universal but it is widely spread: Give enough people the capacity to create, and inevitably gems will emerge.

Blockbusters are the exception, not the rule, and yet we see an entire industry through their rarefied air.

Never underestimate the power of a million amateurs with keys to the factory.

When the tools of production are available to everyone, everyone becomes a producer.

Actually, come to think of it, you also should resist the temptation to share your work-in-progress with yourself as well. Rereading parts of your first draft while writing is like doubling back and rerunning portions of a marathon midrace.

I tend to celebrate crossing over with a meditative ceremony where I print the book out and neatly stack its pages on the floor. When everything has been properly laid out, I take a few steps back from the work, close my eyes, and offer up my thanks to the writing powers for another bountiful harvest. At which point, I get a running start and dive headlong into my word-pile, rolling around and snorting like a pig. And then I fall asleep for three days. How you celebrate is up to you. But

Despite what you may have learned last month, sustained writing is best accomplished as part of a balanced lifestyle, one that includes things like grocery shopping and speaking in complete sentences with your significant other. No

Instead, we spent our downtime prodding at lifeless characters and wondering how long a human body could subsist on a diet of ramen and Coke before liver function ceased entirely.

Our son Barney was about to be born when I started, [this book] and will start school about the time this is going to press. When I told him I was a writer and not a firefighter, he said:" but writers don't do anything.