Trying new things

The life of a creative person is to attempt new things. Distraction is the avoidance of attempting new things.

If you never create, you'll tell yourself you can't do it. If you do create, you'll still need to remind yourself that it was you.

The real buzz is creating something you haven't done before. You surprise yourself everyday.

Creativity is about doing stuff you haven't done before. You begin by fearing it. Then you begin to love it.

Life is a fluid situation. Sometimes you gotta get your feet wet.

No one is ready to graduate or ready for the job interview, or ready to work for themselves. But they begin.

So many wait impatiently for a limo, when the bus was all they needed.

No one is ever 100% ready to begin. So many put off the work of their dreams forever.

Procrastination is indecision. Indecision is resistance.

People wait for decades until they feel ready. The world also waits.

You need to actively chase projects you want to do. Or you WILL be doing uninteresting work.

Stagnation is making what you know well. Enthusiasm is for what we have only imagined.

Don't need to wait for a job you've already done. Chase the creative career you want.

Obvious enthusiasm is more valuable than career experience.

You're not the sum of you work experience. Aim for your career expectations.

Don't be distracted by what you can do. Focus on what you want to create.

Stagnation, indecisive, procrastination, unmotivated & frustrated: all symptoms of no clear vision for your future career. 

You know you are creating when you say, "I have no idea what I'm doing".

People who know how, didn't know how when they began.

We all imagine a tight-rope between today and our ideal future.

To create is a risk. Not creating is a bigger risk.

10,000 say, "I don't know how", and never start. A rare few say, "I will figure it out" and begin.

Some wait for the perfect time. Some are waiting to be perfect.

We wait until we are ready, willing & able. But we just need to be willing.

People say they aren't creative. What they mean is: "I feel safe in my box".

Many say, "I'm not creative". (Translation: "I got by up till now").

For the past 50 years you could get by without being creative. Not any more.

SUCCESS: It’s not what you do well now, it's what you want to do great.

It's not how creative you are. It's how creative you want to be.

Creativity flows AFTER you start creating.

You won't learn about personal innovation until you take a risk.

Innovation

Not everyone has a creative foundation on which you can build an innovative concept.

Good innovation is human centered. Good design is organic.

Great innovation is creative compassion.

Innovation is a better mouse trap. Progress is a better question.

There are no new possibilities without new questions.

A new era begins when people start to ask new questions.

Old problems remain because they're waiting for a new perspective.

The problem with doing what everyone else is doing, you can't do what no one has done before.

Everyone wants to be a leader but not everyone wants to go first.

Current leaders in any field never waited to see what others are doing.

New inventions need new discoveries. New discoveries need new inventions.

Our questions begin as an assumption. And questions reveal false assumptions.

Without the info we need, assumptions become necessary. It's the false assumptions we are taught that mislead us.

Creativity is turning nothing into something. Innovation is turning something into many.

Innovation is improving everything. (Even improve the way you improve things).

Imagination

Photography is such a wonderful thing. It's not what's in the picture. It is our desire to be in these far off places too.

If it doesn't capture your imagination any more. It's time to explore new mediums and subjects.

People only say, "You're out of your mind", when your imagination has escaped.

Imagination is sweet. Progress should be sweeter.

Only your imagination is perfect. Your work is progress. That's enough.

Never compare your work to others. Not even to your own imagination.

The artist see's the worts, the audience see's beauty.

Perfectionism is toxic. It will poison everything.

Your aim shouldn't be perfection, but progress.

Imagination creates new realities.

Imagination: Your right to freedom of thought.

For me, the key that unlocks my imagination is.....a pencil!

When no one is looking, our imagination comes out of it's hiding place.

Imagination is a creative mind at play. We all have it.

Making connections; they're the games creative minds play.

A visual imagination makes better connections. It's the stuff that ideas are made if.

Don't need to think more. Just connect.

In a repetitive world, everyone prefers to be in a world of their own.

I'm sure, without imagination, we would all slip into a semi conscious coma.

People generally question the imagination of others & themselves.

I'm a figment of my imagination.

The world is the solidification of imagination & elements.

People who can imagine the unseen, recognize each other. They see it in them.

Not everyone has the imagination to see that your ideas are possible.

People think of their imagination as just a small, wild creature that got into their roof space.

Wild imagination is an endangered species. Should be protected.

My imagination has gone too far. Doesn't it know it's limits?

It's just me, my imagination & I.

"It's just my imagination". ("It's just something in me that wants to improve my reality").

My imagination is running away from me. I really should keep up.

You're not limited by your imagination. Your imagination is limited by you.

People quickly become bored without electricity. Have we forgotten how to think for ourselves?

For many, a good imagination has been replaced by a good connection or good reception.

Entertainment should spark imaginations. Not replace it.

Some people can't imagine what they can do without an output device. They could do a lot & output a lot.

We have wild imaginations. Our intuition is our instincts. Creativity, our wilderness to explore.

If we loose our imagination, we loose track of who we are.

The thing that sparks your creativity is the flint of imagination.

Imagination is a strange machine. It's kind of a 3D augmented virtual reality x-ray holographic daydream projection device.

Without imagination, a lot of knowledge would be wasted.

Knowledge is gained in activity, imagination in stillness.

Knowledge is the distillation of the ages. Imagination is the essence of the individual.

Knowledge is earned, imagination is a free gift.

Knowledge is a seed. Imagination waters it.

We are given imagination so we know what our talents are for.

Drawing is a better way to imagine, & to communicate your ideas.

A drawing is proof of your imagination. The hardcopy of your hopes.

An active imagination is exercise for a healthy mind.

Imagination is a way to escape the present, & a way to chase the future.

A creative perspective often sees what is imagined, interacting with what is seen.

Imagination includes things to what you see, that seems missing from your view.

Imagination is the alternate reality overlaid onto your present reality.

 

We see with out brains. Our imagination are the doodles we draw on those mental images.

Imagination is the transparency that overlays your visual perception.

Knowledge comes by reading, research & revision. Imagination comes by reflection.

Knowledge trickles. Imagination flows.

Very little appears possible without imagination.

What boosts imagination, lifts the world. What infects imagination, makes it afraid.

People who were ahead of their time, allowed their imagination to run ahead of them. Then they ran after it.

Ideas

People won't always listen to your ideas. But keep sharing them.

Ideas are like orphans left at our door. It's impossible to leave them out in the cold.

Creative people get so many ideas, to make up for those who ignore their own.

You have a creative idea. Sometimes, getting it done requires the real creativity.

Ideas can be shy creatures. They come out when they think you're not looking.

Great ideas appear when your self critic is distracted by boring stuff.

No one likes boring work, but that's when you get your best ideas.

You may by busy but the day isn't wasted if you write your ideas down.

I've heard of so many people looking for a fresh start by using stale ideas.

I believe that ideas equals hope. People lack hope because they can't create ideas that will improve their lives.

I believe that people lack hope for their future because they forgot how to create ideas that will guide them.

Most of your best thinking happens with a pen in your hand.

Your best ideas come AFTER the pen is in your hand.

Big ideas are something you grow into.

A small idea becomes big with small steps.

Better the small idea shared than the big idea hidden.

Make new relationships between ideas and people.

Ideas are like seagulls. Feed one and more will appear.

Creativity is when new relationships between ideas & people are encouraged to form.

Value your ideas enough to put them on paper.

Don't be too quick to edit yourself & your ideas.

You want a big future? . . . Follow that big idea.

Love ideas for their own sake. Some may lead to profit. And some will illuminate you.

I get the feeling a lot of people now value any idea only because it could make them money.

A treasured idea is no substitute for research, practice and persistence.

Ideas can be powerful, but no single idea can be a silver bullet.

Yes, you have ideas everyday. You look at the world through your own lense.

Your most powerful idea is the one you have about yourself.

1st: Choose a medium to learn. 2nd: Choose ideas to explore. 3rd: Care for the details. Your next project is the result of your whole life.

Every artist needs a creating place. A studio, a spare room, a corner, or just a note book. Our ideas need to escape the mind-space.

Confidence is believing in your own ideas.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but two bad ideas can make a great ideas. 

It's good to be part of something bigger than yourself. Especially if it's your big idea.

Allow your big idea to be bigger than you.

Don't always know where ideas come from, or where they will take us. But as long as you love the process.

Don't let your mind get in the way of a good idea.

I must love inspiration. I don't mind if it keeps me up half the night.

A good idea moves you forward. A bad idea stops you.

People go nowhere because they don't go where their ideas want to take them.

We run out of ideas because we don't give them time to reach the surface.

Put legs on your ideas,...YOUR legs.

Your big (scary) idea is really lots of small ideas.

Our ideas are like our children. We hope they will grow up & change the world.

Just because you find out that someone had the same idea before you. Doesn't mean you're not creative.

I wonder what the world would be like if more people just followed their ideas.

Some people have ideas that are beautifully executed. Some execute their ideas without trial.

Ideas are like dreams & phone numbers. Write them down before they disappear.

I committed my idea to memory. I committed a crime against creativity.

I'm looking for my lost idea. It's in one of these 100 billion neurons. (Might take a while).

I zoomed past a good idea today. Should have stopped for it. Looked in the mirror but it was gone.

Never be complacent. Never say, "Why do I stand up for my ideas?"

It worth fighting for a good idea.

An idea is vulnerable until it's defended.

You believe in your unseen ideas. Others need to touch & see it first.

Everyday has it's own ideas. Many aren't expected & will never come again.

Everyday is a unique alinement of your thoughts & tasks. Everyday will inspire different things in you.

I've got the Stockholm Syndrome: An idea has taken me hostage & I'm sympathizing with it's cause.

An idea has power over the originator, & gives the end user a power they didn't have before.

A person can only be as confident as he is in his ideas.

An ideal is the best combination of many ideas.

Too many ideas for this year? November is the best time to plan next year.

So many concepts new to me, fly past. Like leaves in the wind from the great tree of knowledge. Each leaf is just a passing thought. But when the leaves touch, they become thoughts combined.

Ideas don't change the world. Plans change the world.

An idea is just a seed of a great plan.
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Even if someone steals your idea, it still takes passion & planning to make it profitable. (Something they don't have).

Don't worry about someone stealing an idea. A creative person has too many ideas already.

Don't worry. People who steal ideas have already lost.
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Ever a brilliant idea needs to be presented in the right way, in the right place.

Most people don't accept new ideas until they see others applauding.

A good idea can look like bad news to the world; first there is denial, then fear, then acceptance.

Even a great idea must sit on a shelf until the world realizes that they can't live without it anymore.

I'm an entertainer....I'm entertaining the possibilities of a few ideas.

The goal is to find what we seek. But it's the unexpected & interesting things we find, that makes the journey.

I've been conducting some thought experiments. The results are rarely predicted but often interesting.

Abundance is just more people prepared to love & share their ideas.

If you don't capture ideas when they appear, they will take flight & disappear as quickly as they came.

Life becomes too scary for a person without ideas & solutions.

Work on the big idea in you, until it becomes something bigger than yourself.

An interesting life is following interesting ideas.

People choose to ignore inspiration, but not desperation.

Many conceptual leaps began as leaps of faith.

Individuals create original concepts. Groups work out the details, copy, scale & popularize.

Ideas often meet for the first time in the minds of individuals.

A valued idea contains a curtain promise; a hope we didn't have before.

The more we value our own ideas, the more we value ourselves.

An original idea works best if it creates it's own niche. A new category, a new definition.

An idea can have value in itself, or in the challenge.

Enthusiasm & optimism

Enthusiasm is constant, even if the body can't always express it.

Enthusiasm isn't an emotion. It's an active love & a persistent devotion.

Enthusiasm is unstoppable; progress encourages it & barriers focus it.

Enthusiasm infects all that you do, & people that you share it with.

The most generous are people who share their enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is prolonged inspiration.

Even an optimist needs a life boat.

I'm an optimist, but even a pessimist with a plan is better than an optimist without one.

 

Even in the good times, we need an escape plan / transition plan / life plan.

Curiosity & learning

People become more creative when they allow their curiosity to be inspired by simple things.

Not everyone has the opportunity to study. But everyone has the freedom to learn.

Curiosity is the love of learning. Endless boredom is the price of indifference.

University is heaven for the curious and paradise for the creative.

If we're not learning, we become robots running on old, pre-installed programs.

We learn interesting things about ourselves when we are learning other interesting things.

Few things are finer than learning interesting things with others.

You may find that some of your best times were learning new things at your pace.

There are Students and Stagnates. Those who keep learning and those who stop.

I wonder if I'm too curious. I feel like an ant exploring an oak tree.

A creative soul is rarely bored. He always packs a big lunch for a hungry curiosity.

Curiosity is like a close friend. Imagination like a brother.

Creativity is ultimately the exploration of personal curiosity.

We can wish to be a master, or we can create today with the heart of a student.

Common knowledge, prevailing wisdom, seedless watermelon. Don't accept it just because most believe it.

Logic looks for instant satisfaction, curiosity is far more patient.

Been away for a while. Needed some in-put time. I love learning new things.

You succeed if you earn but if you only learn, you still succeed.

An artist doesn't need to know all the answers. They can just ask the question.

See more intentionally, Feel more sensitively, Think more independently.

I'm learning too much at the moment, to get an education.

You are a theory that needs to be tested.

I've always been curious. What makes me tick?

If you're a mystery to yourself, then the world is a mystery.

Your life is a journey of discovery. Begin with you.

Life can be a mystery. You shouldn't be.

Creativity is a life of discovery. -Of your unique talents, personality, dreams, voice & niche.

A laboratory curiosity is an observation without imagination.

The great pillars of discovery should never be just silos of knowledge.

Knowledge is relative, truth is absolute.

Feed your curiosity. Don't drip feed it.

Bad television is the gradual transition from a bad education.

Today is 'National awareness of nothing in particular day'.

Restlessness, is the hunger pains of an unfed curiosity.

More people would have a photographic memory, if they took off the lens cap.

We create with what we know, to explore what we don't know.

An artist sees more, a musician hears more.

The most observant are deaf. The best listeners are blind.

Most of us have excellent hearing & eye sight. Unfortunately, most of us can't do them well at the same time.

We see & hear unconsciously. -It's a common problem.

The future belongs to the people that are curious, creative & open to change.

Apart from boring work, there isn't any reason to be bored.

In a digital world, we need to focus on what we need now. Not on what we might need later.

Entertainment shouldn't be an escape from reality, but give a hunger for more of it.

You never know what you'll find when you become curious. But that's half the fun.

When you're open, things flow to you. When you're creative, things flow out.

Have an intense curiosity about you. What are you reeealy capable of?

A tragedy is someone who wants to learn but can't. And someone who can learn but won't.

Man digs for rare minerals in the depths of the earth so he can see the colors of a distant galaxy.

Curiosity is the remedy for conscious ignorance.

Knowledge is empowering. Words have the power to bridge the divide.

Confidence comes from knowing how to begin. And yet still beginning, knowing there is still much to learn along the way.

Listen twice as much. Believe what you hear half as much.

Read as much as you can. Let it stimulate your thinking, not replace it.

Curiosity isn't a hungry mind, but a feast for a growing identity.

A great curiosity, creates a great talent.

Don't have much? At least you have talent. Even if you didn't have talent, curiosity will be rewarded.

A seeker may accept a lie, but will eventually find the truth. Someone sure of his truth, will end up with lies.

Curiosity is the best teacher.

The seeker finds much more than he seeks. He finds an interesting path just for himself.

Busyness is the death of curiosity.

You don't know what you don't know. -Unknown

Knowing is easy. People who believe it's difficult or expensive, won't get far.

Creativity myths

Creativity myth #10: I need a million dollars to launch my idea.

Creativity myth #9: "Drugs or alcohol makes you more creative".

Creativity myth #8: You need to be a little crazy to be creative.

Creativity myth #7: "Marketing is boring".

Creativity myth #6: "Build it and they will come".

Creativity myth #5: "They will steal my idea".

Creativity myth #4: Success is 1% inspiration.

Creativity myth #3: Creativity only happens in the right brain.

Creativity myth #2: Creativity is for Arty types.

Creativity myth #1: "I'm not creative".

Perfectionism is a bad invention. Always addicted to outcomes, results & 'proof'.

Creativity is...

• Creativity is the opportunity to make something possible.
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  The world says, "How is that possible?". Creatives say, "How can I make it possible?".
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• Creativity is great therapy. Rediscover the joy of writing, image making or music.
  
  If it wasn't for Everyday Creativity, I wouldn't feel too creative some days.
  
• Creativity is for today. Imagination is for this moment.
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• Before the innovation age, you had choices. You could pick potatoes, pumpkins or cotton.
  
  What would the world be like without creativity? An out-house without toilet paper.
  
  If it wasn't for creativity, half of us would be farm-hands & factory workers now.
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• Fortunately the world is full of 'fads' that never went away.
  
  Without 100 years of creativity you would most likely be collecting firewood about now.
  
  Why is creativity important? We have electric light because someone burnt the midnight oil.
  
  Is creativity important? When was the last time you handwashed your clothes with whale sope?
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• Nothing focuses creativity more than the point of a pen.
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• Creativity is firstly the process of forming new connections, associations or repurposing ideas, objects & even people.
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• Creativity is active optimism despite the obstacle.
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• Creativity is like a volcano: an eruption followed by disruption.
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  History: Man coping better with nature. Creativity: Man coping in advance.
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• Creativity is thinking outside the half empty square : )
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  Creativity is when new relationships between ideas & people are encouraged to form.
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• Creativity without action isn't creative.
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• Creativity isn't about escaping reality. It's about reclaiming it.
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  Chaos is a word for order we don't understand yet.
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  If everyone agrees with, chances are, you're not doing anything original.
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  Creativity is proving yourself wrong about what you know is impossible?
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• Creativity isn't just a way of thinking. It's a way of living.
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• Creativity is applied optimism.
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  Creativity is hope in action.
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• The purpose of being creative is to repurpose. 
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  Research is finding connections. Creativity is making them.
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• Discovery is a jigsaw puzzle, creativity is a mosaic.
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• We all construct patterns of thought but creativity seeks to remove them.
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  The three levels of creativity: 1/Repurposing, 2/connection & 3/metaphor.
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• Intelligence looks for a quick solution. Creativity looks for possibilities.
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• Creativity is the ability to consider multiple options.
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• Creativity: Man V's time.
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  The artist: Man V's todays trend.
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  An artists dream: Man V's 'common sense'.
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  Drama: Man V's an adversary.
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  Comedy: Man V's gravity.
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• Creative thinking if fine but it's the creative heart of one person that becomes the agent of change.
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• Creativity is the way you relate to the world. It isn't a force or power or energy. Creativity is personal and human.
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• We create relationships with our ideas, our surroundings, our medium, subject, field, career, audience & our art.
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  Creativity is a relationship with many things.
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• Creating is like breathing: Observation (in), record ideas (out), verify (in), public expression (out).
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• High IQ's seize the day, Creatives change tomorrow.
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• Creativity is: Just connect. Make connections between unrelated things. Create a relationship between unrelated objects, ideas & knowledge.
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• There is an unbroken line of emotion from the very first song to the latest.
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• Creativity happens at the intersection of conscious & subconscious. And left & right brain.
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• Creativity is compensation for lack of money.
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• Creativity is the continuous dissolving of partitions. Crazy people just take it way too far.
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• Creativity is to play with combinations. Of colours, ideas, words, images & concepts... Let's play.
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• Creativity finds new expressions of faith, hope & love.
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• Creativity is finding new ways to share your enthusiasm.
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• A metaphor, it's like when you say 'It's like...."
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• A metaphor is the unfamiliar clothed in the familiar.
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• Interesting things happen when you expand your definition of creativity, design or art.
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• Creative people create connections, communicate connections, repurpose connections.
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• The less you have, the more useful creativity is.
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• Creativity is life's element of surprise.
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• Creativity is failing to be normal.
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• Destructiveness makes life complicated. Creativity makes life simpler.
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• Creativity makes things simple to understand, & makes great skill look easy.
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• Tools overcome physical limitations, Creativity overcomes environmental limitations.
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• Creativity is like nature: It's adaptive, it adhores a vacuum, it sustains us, & it's interconnected.
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• Life is wonderful complexity. Creativity is wonderful simplicity.
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• Creative people define popular culture. Imitators just popularize it.
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• Creative is Cool. Cool in not creative.
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• Times of intense creativity won't make you crazy. Even if average people think you are.
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• Creativity would strike more people if they weren't earthed to common assumptions.
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• If you want creativity to strike, your pen is the lightning rod.
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• Creativity is like static electricity. We unknowingly collect it as we rub shoulders with life.
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• Creativity is like a capacitor, collecting a charge slowly, but often released all at once.
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• Creativity blurs the lines between seeing & imagining.
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• Curiosity is the opportunity to learn interesting things that you didn't intend learning.
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• Creativity questions common assumptions. It's doesn't agree with the 'wisdom of crowds'.
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• Creativity makes new connections. Intuition senses that potential connections are closer than normal.
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• Creativity exists dispute social & cultural normalization.
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• The best creativity is one that encourages more creativity.
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• Creativity flows in fluid situations.
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• Physically, man isn't remarkable. Creatively, man is incredible.
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• Man learns to use tools (Skill). Man uses tool for new purpose (Creative). Man makes new tool (Invention).
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• Creativity is an unpredictable thing, that makes the future less unpredictable.
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• Creativity takes me places I haven't been. It prepares me for a future I haven't seen.
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• The power of creativity is love, The effectiveness of love is creativity.
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• There's only one thing greater than a creative spirit, & that is a spirit of love.
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• Logic likes to understand. Creativity likes to be puzzled.