Quotes About Creativity

Most inventions and breakthroughs come from reassembling existing ideas in new ways.

in a time of abundance, when the largest rewards go to those who can devise novel and compelling creations, metaphor-making is vital.

the Reggio Emilia philosophy for the education of young children and the Waldorf schools.

CARROTS AND STICKS: The Seven Deadly Flaws 1. They can extinguish intrinsic motivation. 2. They can diminish performance. 3. They can crush creativity. 4. They can crowd out good behavior. 5. They can encourage cheating, shortcuts, and unethical behavior. 6. They can become addictive. 7. They can foster short-term thinking.

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right hemisphere is responsible for our ability to comprehend metaphors

When you are playful, you are activating the right side of your brain. The logical brain is a limited brain. The right side is unlimited. You can be anything you want.

salespeople adept at improvising "can generate ideas, incorporate changes quickly and easily, and communicate effectively and convincingly during sales presentations."5

the intrinsic motivation principle of creativity, which holds, in part: "Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity."11

To reprise language from the previous chapter, the solution isn't algorithmic (following a set path) but heuristic (breaking from the path to discover a novel strategy).

Type I" behavior, a way of thinking and an approach to business grounded in the real science of human motivation and powered by our third drive—our innate need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote." TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO

Harvard Business School's Teresa Amabile have found that external rewards and punishments—both carrots and sticks—can work nicely for algorithmic tasks. But they can be devastating for heuristic ones.

Kemampuan terbaik saya adalah ketika saya tidak bisa melakukan sesuatu. Saya telah mengembangkan kemampuan untuk merasa kuat dan percaya diri dalam situasi-situasi ini. Saya merasa bebas untuk bergerak, mendengarkan nurani saya, belajar, bertindak, bahkan jika itu berarti saya akan melakukan kesalahan. Jika Anda menginginkan hidup yang kreatif, lakukan apa yang tidak bisa Anda lakukan dan resapi keindahan dari kesahalan-kesalahan yang Anda buat.

Not always, but a lot of the time, when you are doing a piece for someone else it becomes more "work" than joy. When I work for myself there is the pure joy of creating and I can work through the night and not even know it.

If you want a creative life, do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

ultimately, open source depends on intrinsic motivation with the same ferocity that older business models rely on extrinsic motivation

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers, artists, inventors, and designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, and big picture thinkers.

A little kid's life bursts with autotelic experiences.

One of the most enduring scenes in American literature offers an important lesson in human motivation. In Chapter 2 of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom faces the dreary task of whitewashing Aunt Polly's 810-square-foot fence. He's not

And by diminishing intrinsic motivation, they can send performance, creativity, and even upstanding behavior toppling like dominoes. Let's call this the Sawyer Effect.a A sampling of intriguing experiments around the world reveals the four realms where this effect

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Those artists who pursued their painting and sculpture more for the pleasure of the activity itself than for extrinsic rewards have produced art that has been socially recognized as superior," the study said. "It is those who are least motivated to pursue extrinsic rewards who eventually receive them.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote