Creative Thinking Quotes

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

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.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student in some technique or procedure, and requires little if any, original thought... No exercise, then, can always be done with reasonbable dispatch and with a miniumum of creative thinking. In contrast to an exercise, a problem, if it is a good one for its level, should require though on the part of the student.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "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.

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.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Companies that recognize the need to be creative about their businesses are going to pursue this creative thinking with us or without us. It's our collective responsibility, our collective future to make sure they choose to do it with us.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to be a man – and how much my sexuality would perpetually challenge those meanings—could be found in arguments posed by feminists. What can I say? I identified.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

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.

Creativity is just connecting things. 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. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

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

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?

Want to know the secret behind The Secret? The Law of Attraction will not bring you abundance and prosperity for just thinking pleasant, positive thoughts. It is no cosmic mistake that the word "attraction" has the word "action" in it. Abundance is, in fact, the result of creative thinking and a lot of action. Much action, much prosperity, in other words. What are you waiting for?