The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain
The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain
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Other Creativity :
- Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.
- Art lights up the world.
- Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving.
- If you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.
- Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
- A mind gets its rest when it is meditative and a mind get its respect when it is creative.
- If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.
- Music is a writer’s heartbeat.
- Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.
- I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.
- Creativity is how the soul prays. Pray often.
- Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.
- Divergent thinking is that one starts thinking from one point and expands from there to generate more ideas.
- Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision
- To ‘see both sides’ of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
- Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will get you everywhere.
- You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
- For a Photographer – Having an OBSERVANT MIND is more important than having an expensive camera.
- There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy.
- A busy mind is full of thoughts, a blissful mind is full of ideas.