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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas read more
Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions read more
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my read more
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which read more
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
