Creativity

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world,

and that is an idea whose time is come.

                                                            -- Victor Hugo

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

                                                            -- Albert Einstein

The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates;

Einstein formulating a theory of relativity;

the housewife devising a new sauce for the meat,

a young author writing his first novel;

all of these are in terms of definition, Creative, and there is no attempt to set them in some order of more or less Creative.

                                                                        -- Carl Rogers

 Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

                        -- John Updike

 There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

                                    -- Buckminster Fuller

 You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

                                    --  Albert Einstein

 Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

                                    -- Anna Freud

 All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

                                    -- Pablo Picasso

 Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

                                    -- Charles Du Bos

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money;

it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

                                    -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

 Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

                                    -- Rita Mae Brown

 Perhaps what we call genius has something to do with a learned state of consciousness, a way of attending to the stream of mental experience. Perhaps many more of us could hear inner melodies, find guidance and inspiration, achieve breakthrough insight–if we would only pay more attention to the fleeting images and the quiet intuitions presented to us by the creative mind.

                                                                        -- Willis Harmen

 All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money

                        -- Robert Collier

 Happiness is not in the mere possession of money;

it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

                                    -- Franklin Roosevelt

 The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

                                    -- Albert Einstein

 You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

                                    --  Nietzsche

 To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

                                    -- Henri L. Bergson

 Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

                                    -- Arthur Koestler

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

                                    -- Erich Fromm

 Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

                                    --  Albert Einstein

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

                                    -- A.A. Milne