Quotes About Creativity

in 1884, at a shoe store in Vicksburg, a man named Phil Gilbert came up with the idea of selling left and right shoes together in the same box!

I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree falling in a forest and crushing a family of happy butterflies until they are dead

Nicholas was yanking our chain. Everybody knows there were no schools in dinosaur times. Besides, it would be hard to ride a dinosaur. They don't even make saddles for them. Dr. Nicholas would have had to ride the dinosaur bareback.

Neil the nude kid even though he wears clothes. "Maybe he rented it," said Michael. "You can rent anything. There's probably a place called Rent-a-Turkey.

Annoying Andrea had on her mean face. She was mad because I came up with a great idea and she didn't. Mr. Cooper wrote down my idea and sent it to the

story I ever heard!" Emily said. Then she started

I love butterflies," Andrea said. "I'm going to finger paint a picture of a happy family of butterflies." "I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree in a forest where your butterflies can live," said Emily. "I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree falling in a forest and crushing a family of happy butterflies until they are dead," I said.

Everybody has to stand in a big circle and tuck their thumbs into their armpits. Then you have to flap your elbows like a chicken and cluck. Then you have to wiggle down to the floor and sing, "I don't want to be a chicken. I don't want to be a duck. So I shake my butt.

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Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

Don't think outside the box. Go box shopping. Keep trying on one after another until you find the one that catalyzes your thinking. A good box is like a lane marker on the highway. It's a constraint that liberates.

For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.

According to Russell Simmons, producer Eric B once claimed he could have created fifteen albums with the ideas from Paul's Boutique. Even the late Miles Davis reportedly once said he never tired of the record.

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Maybe the best way to do something really innovative is to hire a bunch of young people who have no experience and therefore no preconceived notions about how to run a company.

Have you transformed the way you innovate?" was Benioff's big line at the 2012 Dreamforce show. Note that you can switch the two buzzwords in the sentence and it still sounds good and still means nothing.

Periods of boredom are gifts from the universe. You're not wasting time; you're seizing an opportunity.

Work should, in fact, be thought of as a creative activity undertaken for the love of the work itself; and that man, made in God's image, should make things, as God made them, for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing . . . Work is the natural exercise and function of man—the creature who is made in the image of his Creator. —Dorothy L. Sayers, Why Work?

We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. . . . Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves."7

Here are a few mind teasers to help you think in unexpected ways (see answers at end of chapter). • A bus with 15 passengers crashed and all but 9 people were killed. How many survivors were there? • How many animals of each species did Moses take on the ark? • I have 2 coins that total $.35 in value. One is not a quarter. What are the 2 coins?