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 :
- Dreams are fuel for creation.
- The secret of creativity is knowing how to discover and exploit your sources.
- A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die.
- The first step to solving your problem is admitting that you have one.
- Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- There’s is always a way to make life better.
- The problem is not the problem, the problem is the way we see the problem
- If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play
- The Only Thing That NEW ideas do is creating the FUTURE
- Creativity is an intelligent escape from the perceived limits.
- I have two righteous addictions. Firstly are my observations. Secondly, my imaginations.
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Artists are haunted souls.
- Solve the problem before the Problem dissolves you.
- To ‘see both sides’ of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
- Sometimes the solution of a problem is just the perspective of thinking.
- Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving.
- Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision
- A writer is never alone, he is always with himself
- Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.