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  • If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  • Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

  • Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.

  • 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.

    Norah Maier, Edward De Bono (1982). “Teaching the gifted, challenging the average”, Univ of Toronto
  • What is now proved was once only imagined.

    William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education
  • A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 21, 2013
  • Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

    Alex Faickney Osborn (1948). “Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination”
  • Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in your imagination." She told me that thoughts were things and that I would become the thing I thought of most. This kind of empowerment is crucial to creative thinking.

    Mother   Thinking   Play  
    Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.141, Taylor Trade Publishing
  • I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

  • I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

    Dream   Coffee   Home  
  • 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 improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.

  • Imagination is more important than knowledge.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press
  • Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

    Elaine DUNDON (2002). “Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas”, p.38, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
  • The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one's path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest. Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.

  • When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan
  • Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  • Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

  • I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

  • Life is about trying things to see if they work.

  • Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

    Source: scottlondon.com
  • Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

  • Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

    Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.
  • Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

  • 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 forever repeating the same patterns.

  • Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

    Moon   Thinking   People  
    "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.
  • You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  • The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far.

    Thinking   Done   World  
  • Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

    Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”
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