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.
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Ideas are the root of creation.
Ideas are the root of creation.
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.
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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.
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
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.
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same read more
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
