I’d never just want to do what everybody else did. I’d be contributing to the sameness of everything.
I’d never just want to do what everybody else did. I’d be contributing to the sameness of everything.

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Other Creativity :
- A writer is never alone, he is always with himself
- Sometimes imagination outsmarts intelligence and enthusiasm outshines experience.
- Never solve a problem for someone, instead, help them figure out how to solve it on their own. Otherwise, you destroy their adaptive competence.
- The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
- How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?
- Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.
- Yielding to convention yields nothing new.
- Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
- The annoyance you ignore today only gets worse tomorrow. Solve it now.
- I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
- If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
- One does not create beauty, one surrenders to it.
- Boredom is a great catalyst.
- I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
- Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.
- Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it. Pearl Zhu
- They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.
- Most problems can be effectively dealt with before they are in full swing.
- Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings.
- Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.