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Quotes About Creativity

E é verdade que a mentira exige capacidade de fabulação e de improvisação, e inventiva, e memória férrea, e arquitecturas complexas, todos a praticam mas são poucos os diplomados.) Ou
~ Javier Marías
impact. Feedback-seeking behavior—as it's called in the research literature—has been linked to higher job satisfaction, greater creativity on the job, faster adaptation in a new organization or role, and lower turnover. And seeking out negative feedback is associated with higher performance ratings.
~ Douglas Stone
I wonder if we can work to find a creative way to meet both interests here. What do you think? Are you willing to try?
~ Douglas Stone
Problem-Solving Together Given what you and the other person have each learned, what would improve the situation going forward? Can you brainstorm creative ways to satisfy both of your needs? Where your needs conflict, can you use equitable standards to ensure a fair and workable way to resolve the conflict?
~ Douglas Stone
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
~ Dr. Linus Pauling
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
~ Dr. Seuss
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
~ Dr. Seuss
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
~ Dr. Seuss
Photographers tend not to photograph what they can't see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we're going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?
~ Duane Michals
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man's face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It's the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.
~ Duane Michals
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see
~ Duane Michals
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
~ Duke Ellington
If it sounds good, it IS good.
~ Duke Ellington
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
~ Duke Ellington
Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.
~ Duke Ellington
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
~ Dylan Thomas
I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.
~ Dylan Thomas
no best is quite so good you don't conceive a better; 5
~ e. e. cummings
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
~ E. L. Doctorow
Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
~ E. L. Doctorow
Jamie liked perspiration, a little bit of dirt, and complications.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.
~ E. Paul Torrance
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
~ e.e cummings
Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
~ E.E. Cummings