Quotes about creativity
creativity love-is said
What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning. Rollo May
creativity encounters understood
Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center. Rollo May
creativity definitions born
Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get. Rollo May
creativity creating sequels
We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being. Rollo May
creativity commitment passion
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy. Rollo May
creativity names consciousness
By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness. Rollo May
creativity immortality yearning
Creativity is a yearning for immortality Rollo May
creativity artist creating
... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities. Rollo May
creativity creative able
By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death. Rollo May
creativity something-new process
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Rollo May
creativity expression people
The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves. Rollo May
creativity creating world
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world. Rollo May
creativity passion childhood
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. Rollo May
creativity imagination creative
When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination. Rollo May
creativity mean heart
What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings. Rollo May
creativity backwards understood
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. Soren Kierkegaard
creativity flow moments
It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow. Stefon Harris
creativity home discovery
But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever has tobring about a discovery or deed which will further the cause of all of humanity, no longer has his home in his native land but rather in his work. Stefan Zweig
creativity greatness creative
Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds. Stefan Zweig
creativity opportunity thinking
Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations. Tim Brown
creativity ideas impact
We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world. Tim Brown
creativity doors innovation
Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those. A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a sign that something is wrong when you have a VP of innovation or something. You know, put a for-sale sign on the door. Tim Cook
creativity thinking people
Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it. Tim Cook
creativity data pieces
The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else. Tim Berners-Lee
creativity keys energy
Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life. William Shatner
creativity next firsts
To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next. William James
creativity mean science
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. William James
creativity originality arrangements
Nothing is new except arrangement. Will Durant
creativity house important
With McQueen you have so much at your fingertips. That is what's so incredible about this place. Lee built an amazing house, an English house - and that is very important - where creativity rules, where you can do whatever you want to do for the shows because no one's saying: where's your basic dress, where's your three button jacket? Sarah Burton
creativity artist years
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since. William Faulkner
creativity goal excited
The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before. Wil Wheaton
creativity organization creative-collaboration
The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause. Warren G. Bennis
creativity organization ideas
Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience. Warren G. Bennis