Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.
Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

Similar John Scalzi quotes:
Other Creativity :
- Solve the problem before the Problem dissolves you.
- I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
- Creation, of any sort, needs a little bit of madness.
- We do not grow when things are going well. We grow when things are challenging. Problems are the key ingredient in personal growth.
- Focus on the solution, not the problem.
- Inhale possibility, exhale creativity.
- If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.
- You can disagree with an idea without attacking the person who shared it.
- The secret of creativity is knowing how to discover and exploit your sources.
- They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.
- Silence creates space for content to appear.
- Before invention there is insight.
- If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance.
- Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Dreaming is easy. Creativity is a lot of work.
- If the problems you have this year are the same problems you had last year, then you are not a leader.
- Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.
- Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life’s sorrow with grace.
- Good writing is both what one does and does not say.