Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“We are the poem, his poem says, that emerges from the unity of the body and the mind. That fragile unity--this brief… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“When the mind is denied the emotional sting of losing , it never figures out how to win.” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“A few years ago, Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, wanted to figure out why placebos were so effective. His experiment… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Use your conscious mind to acquire all the information you need for making a decision. But don't try to analyze the information… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
“When the mind is denied the emotional sting of losing , it never figures out how to win.” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a very narrow… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
“You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
“In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share
