Creativity Quotes

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.

The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.

Words that do not match deeds are not important.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present.

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for the purpose of correcting past injustices, a revolution involves a projection of man/woman into the future...It begins with projecting the notion of a more human human being, i.e. a human being who is more advanced in the specific qualities which only human beings have - creativity, consciousness and self-consciousness, a sense of political and social responsibility.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never - since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a catharsis, or to end a development. On the contrary, its objective is to encourage autonomous activity, to set a process in motion, to stimulate transformative creativity, to change spectators into protagonists. And it is precisely for these reasons that the Theatre of the Oppressed should be the initiator of changes the culmination of which is not the aesthetic phenomenon but real life.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

You have to systematically create confusion,
it sets creativity free.
Everything that is contradictory creates life

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation,
health and self-fulfillment...
the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth,
creativity,
beauty,
goodness,
wholeness,
aliveness,
uniqueness,
justice,
simplicity,
and self-sufficiency.

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.

Each morning when I awake,
I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.