Quotes About Creativity

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

Creativity—that is, inventing your way out of a problem—is definitely the better stance.

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color.

There is nothing permanent about being a writer.

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

To speak of creativity is to speak of profound intimacy. It is also to speak of our connecting to the Divine in us and of our bringing the Divine back to the community. This is true whether we understand our creativity to be begetting and nourishing our children, making music, doing theater, gardening, writing, teaching, running a business, painting, constructing houses, or sharing the healing arts of medicine and therapy.

Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our growth in turn delights God. "God is delighted to watch your soul enlarge," says Eckhart.

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.

What do we do with chaos? Creativity has an answer. We are told by those who have studied the processes of nature that creativity happens at the border between chaos and order. Chaos is a prelude to creativity. We need to learn, as every artist needs to learn, to

Only art as meditation reminds people so that they will never forget that the most beautiful thing a potter produces is...the potter.

When you find you've written yourself into a corner, the thing to do is: remove a wall.

One thing I have noticed about continuous learners is they tend to have pen and paper with them at all times, because they never know when they are going to hear something great or have an idea.

People are unique in that they have the ability to imagine a more abundant future, to hope for that future, and to take proactive steps to create that future.

Everytime we use an invention or read a book or study a science or listen to music, we're enjoying someone else's idea— someone who may have lived thousands of years ago, and thousands of miles away from here.

Somehow, when a person you like reads your poem and says they like it, the poem seems all fresh and new afterwards. I wonder why?

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. —ALBERT EINSTEIN I

putting in the necessary thinking work and refusing to accept the unattractive trade-offs, we can unleash our ability to build new and better models and create value for the world.

The power of framestorming lies in its ability to engage our SLOW thinking in a manner that feels like FAST thinking. At the same time, it turns problems into puzzles. When we view something as a problem, we naturally engage in Leaping to solutions. When something is a puzzle, though, we naturally slow down a bit: we learn at an early age when doing puzzles that we need to get the corners and edges down first. Getting the puzzle frame right is half the battle!

it doesn't necessarily take genius to spend resources . . . it does, though, to work within the resource constraints you're given.

relying on slack resources or ignoring constraints not only stifles creative thinking, but also breeds Overthinking.

But tapping into the creative thinking of inventors and others on the outside would require massive operational changes. We needed to move the company's attitude from resistance to innovations "not invented here" to enthusiasm for those "proudly found elsewhere.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.