#Creativity

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

"Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success."

"It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities."

"Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please."

"Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light."

"Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."

"Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest."

"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"

"The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake."

"Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go."

"Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion."

"Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe."

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."

"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"

"I'm not trying to tell you,"he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative."

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."