Browsing Topic Best Creative Thought Quotes

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The best revenge is the massive success.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The ‘silly question’ is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought.

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.

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.

As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you’re gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

Creative thought must always contain a random component.

The more you think, the more time you have.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.