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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient read more
The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be read more
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has read more
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.
... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.
