Creativity Quotes

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Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

Your life's work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

Indeed, it is the perennial (and almost always unverbalized) premise of creativity, to show that the tangible, visible, and audible universe is infinitesimal in comparison to the one that awaits discovery through exploration of the external world and of the human psyche.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts... 'I always do what pleases God.'... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge?...Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.

Laurie Beth Jones

Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

The person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

William Julius Wilson

Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.

Simon Soloveychik

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

Geoffrey Miller (psychologist)

Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

Creativity in science could be described as the art of putting two and two together to make five. In other words, it consists in combining previously unrelated mental structures in such a way that you get more out of the emergent whole than you have put in.

Arthur Koestler

Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

Jeanette Winterson

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

The less judgment the more curiosity, and the more curiosity the more creativity.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

Joseph Campbell

I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.

Terry Tempest Williams