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Creativity Quotes by Edward de Bono
- One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at.…
- Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.…
- Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
- An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
- Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
- We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
- Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of…
- As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer…
- Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which…
- Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
- Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
- Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
- Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
- Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
- There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all...
- In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
- Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
- It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
- There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be…
- The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
More Creativity Quotes
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal… — Ansel Adams
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams