Quotes on Creativity

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Many inventions had their birth as toys, and such critical instruments as the telescope and microscope were first conceived as playthings....It is leisure, not work, that produces the most important inventions.

Eric Hoffertest

Toynbee states that a disintegrating society is characterized by (1) creative individuals, or a creative minority, who refuse or find they can no longer be creative; and (2) a majority of members who refuse to adopt more adequate responses; and (3) basic institutions that refuse to use their capacity to help their society harmoniously reconstruct or adjust to the new challenge.

W. O. Tomasontest

We do not experience ourselves as gift until we are engaged in the act of creating.

Elizabeth O'Connertest

You never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishng to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

Phillip Brookstest

You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker.

Maya Angelou, Poettest

Always be on the lookout for ideas. Be completely indiscriminate as to the source. Get ideas from customers, children, competitors, and cab drivers.

Jeffrey J. Foxtest