Jonah Lehrer

It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

— Jonah Lehrer

“When the mind is denied the emotional sting of losing , it never figures out how to win.”

— Jonah Lehrer

“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one…

— Jonah Lehrer

“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a…

— Jonah Lehrer

“You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)”

— Jonah Lehrer

So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it,…

— Jonah Lehrer

“In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are…

— Jonah Lehrer

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

— Jonah Lehrer

“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of…

— Jonah Lehrer

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are…

— Jonah Lehrer

Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our…

— Jonah Lehrer

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare…

— Jonah Lehrer

“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot…

— Jonah Lehrer

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

— Jonah Lehrer

Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that…

— Jonah Lehrer

“You might solve a problem while drunk, but you probably won´t notice the answer”

— Jonah Lehrer

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

— Jonah Lehrer

We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is…

— Jonah Lehrer

The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

— Jonah Lehrer

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity…

— Jonah Lehrer

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost…

— Jonah Lehrer

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

— Jonah Lehrer

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

— Jonah Lehrer

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

— Jonah Lehrer

“A few years ago, Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, wanted to figure out why placebos were so effective. His experiment…

— Jonah Lehrer