A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die.
A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die.
Similar Johan Fundin quotes:
Other Creativity :
- Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
- The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
- The great problem-solvers are the ones who possess the right mind with positivity, critical thinking, creative thinking, and systems thinking.
- Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- A key to healthy problem solving is good communication.
- Don’t try to think outside the box- get outside the box, then think!
- Creativity is unguided freedom
- Good writing is both what one does and does not say.
- Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem for another
- Make things happen, Don’t let things happen to you.
- The principle of genuine creativity is not to depict but to arouse.
- Be a generous listener to be a generous contributor. We often listen to respond instead of listening to relate.
- Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
- A problem properly stated is half solved.
- I have two righteous addictions. Firstly are my observations. Secondly, my imaginations.
- REAL success, satisfaction and joy has nothing to do with owning STUFF!
- I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.
- Creativity is just our inner voice that many of us don’t listen.
- Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness.
- I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking