The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

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Other Creativity :
- If you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.
- Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.
- Problems only get solved when you stop ignoring them
- Creativity is not result, it is a process!
- The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
- The problem is not a problem until someone handles that problem in a problematic way.
- Creation, of any sort, needs a little bit of madness.
- There’s is always a way to make life better.
- The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
- Never be swift to label a situation as a problem – and be careful in ever labelling a person as one.
- Identify your problems but give your energy and power to solutions
- Subconsciousness is quick and efficient and sometimes can spur creativity.
- To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
- In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.
- Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
- A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.
- The great problem-solvers are the ones who possess the right mind with positivity, critical thinking, creative thinking, and systems thinking.
- A conclusive mind cannot be a creative mind.
- The ART of happiness is finding your joy in the process, rather than in the end result.