Quotes About Creativity

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

Like a muscle, your creative abilities will grow and strengthen with practice.

As Brown writes: "When our self-worth isn't on the line, we are far more willing to be courageous and risk sharing our raw talents and gifts." One way to embrace creativity, Brown says, is to let go of comparison.

At its core, creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you.

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

Friedrich Nietzsche said, "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

So design your space for flexibility instead of inertia and the status quo.

Design thinking relies on the natural—and coachable—human ability to be intuitive, to recognize patterns, and to construct ideas that are emotionally meaningful as well as functional.

In our experience, one of the scariest snakes in the room is the fear of failure, which manifests itself in such ways as fear of being judged, fear of getting started, fear of the unknown. And while much has been said about fear of failure, it still is the single biggest obstacle people face to creative success.

Noticing that something is broken is an essential prerequisite for coming up with a creative solution to fix

you are not limited to only what you have been able to do before.

The key is to be quick and dirty—exploring a range of ideas without becoming too invested in only one.

It turns out that creativity isn't some rare gift to be enjoyed by the lucky few—it's a natural part of human thinking and behavior. In too many of us it gets blocked. But it can be unblocked. And unblocking that creative spark can have far-reaching implications for yourself, your organization, and your community.

Cool technology alone is not enough. If it were, we'd all be riding Segways and playing with robotic dogs.

We didn't know as children that we were creative. We just knew that it was okay for us to try experiments that sometimes succeeded and sometimes falied. That we could keep creating, keep tinkering, and trust that something interesting would result if we just stuck with it

Golf course design is exciting.

While artificially intelligent, they lacked the creativity, boldness, and sneakiness of the devious human mind.

During 19th-century wargames, German junior officers routinely received problems that could only be solved by disobeying orders. Orders themselves specified the result to be achieved, but never the method.

Nooit meer zwijgen, Altijd schrijven. Nooit meer sprakeloos, BEGIN

Niets is veilig, alles is bruikbaar, de verdraaiingen in zijn memorie, de verzinsels uit zijn buurt, de roddels uit zijn krant, en op den duur lijkt alles maar gebeurd te zijn omdat het hem prima stof oplevert, zelfs de dood van zijn eigen moeder. Wie schrijft is een gier.

Eigenlijk zou je twee levens moeten hebben: een om te leven en een om te schrijven. Die twee storen elkaar.

Er woekert een hardnekkig misverstand, bij kenners en bij leken, dat schrijven 'bewaren' betekent. Het is natuurlijk andersom. Schrijven is vernielen, bij gebrek aan beter. Waar je over schrijft gaat pas dan en juist daardoor voorbij. Literatuur is loslaten. Schrijven is verdrijven.

Puzzelstukken uit diverse periodes, die onverwacht en onverhoopt opeens in elkaar schuiven. Zo moet het zijn om jazz te spelen. Uit de brij valt plots dat ene verscheurende akkoord, zonder repetitie en toch volmaakt getimed. Getoonzet door een genadig toeval. In dank aanvaard door de geduldige muzikant.

Remember the war against Franco?That's the kind where each of us belongs.Though he may have won all the battles,We had all the good songs.