Best Creative Thought Quotes

The best revenge is the massive success.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

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

creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.

Routine kills creative thought.

Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights’ Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The more you think, the more time you have.

Creative thought must always contain a random component.

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.

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.

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

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

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

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

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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.

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.

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.

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

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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

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

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.

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.