Top 100 Quotes About Creative Thinking
#1. The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#2. I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own
memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called
rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,
a great human gift disowned.
Grace Paley
#3. 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.
Bob Schmetterer
#4. Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".
Theodore Levitt
#5. Creative thinking encompassed by the Word of God infuses into you the divine ability to turn the seemingly ugly situation around.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#6. People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.
Ethan Zuckerman
#7. Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.
SARK
#8. 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.
Harper Lee
#9. The assumptions that "pollution is the price of progress" or that "we must choose between jobs and the environment" have long limited our creative thinking about innovative solutions that can be good for the environment, the workers, and a healthy economy.
Annie Leonard
#10. It's well-documented that stress and low self-confidence are detrimental to productivity, especially on tasks requiring creative thinking. Maintaining a healthy exercise routine saves time, creativity, and energy in the long run.
Timur Zhiyentayev
#11. A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.
Michael R. LeGault
#12. A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.
Brian Tracy
#13. Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.
Pearl Zhu
#14. I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
Anita Roddick
#15. It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative thinking, then that's got to be to everybody's benefit.
Alan Moore
#16. Critical Thinking narrows and creative thinking expands, but they must work in tandem for problem solving and decision making.
Pearl Zhu
#17. They get the same rush from a well-executed trade that a writer finds in a well-turned paragraph - not because there's money in it, necessarily, but because it takes technical skill and some measure of creative thinking to pull off.
Anonymous
#18. Today, we need people who are capable of creative thinking and independent decision-making.
Mikael Kamber
#19. Somewhere, within our brain, we have a potential for higher mathematics, complex physics, art, & amazing richness of thoughts, feelings & sensations Somewhere within our brain we have a potential to understand the Magic of Creative Thinking
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#20. When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#21. Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
John Dewey
#22. You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.
George Nelson
#23. 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.
Edward De Bono
#24. It's only a very small percentage of creative thinking that ends up connecting with a wider audience, and even then, any success is quite unpredictable.
Shaun Tan
#25. We'd buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan's words struck chords of creative thinking.
Walter Isaacson
#26. 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.
Bob Schmetterer
#27. When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.
John Lasseter
#28. 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.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#29. Sustainability is contingent on the power of creative thinking.
Gerri Russell
#30. God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.
Robert H. Schuller
#31. The answers lie in not just hard science or philosophical rhetoric but in experiments of the imagination as well. Human perspective must be re-examined through an almost whimsical fount of imagination of species, magic, and clear creative thinking.
Leviak B. Kelly
#32. Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Edward De Bono
#33. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
Anita Roddick
#34. In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.
Peter Senge
#35. Excellence demands the environment that's full of focus, independent thinking and creative thinking. This kind of environment produces innovators.
Euginia Herlihy
#36. In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in your imagination." She told me that thoughts were things and that I would become the thing I thought of most. This kind of empowerment is crucial to creative thinking.
Joey Reiman
#37. Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.
Elaine Dundon
#38. 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.
Marianne Williamson
#39. 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"?
Kay Redfield Jamison
#40. A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.
Jim Hunt
#41. Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.
John Quincy Adams
#42. Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
Paul Davies
#43. Over the following week, I attempted to leave the Lydia situation for my subconscious to work on. Creative thinking benefits from an incubation period.
Graeme Simsion
#44. Creative thinking poses a dynamic asset to every human
Wogu Donald
#45. I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.
Andy Partridge
#46. To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
Steven Pressfield
#47. Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist.
Debra Kaye
#48. I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.
Meredith Brooks
#49. Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?
Neale Donald Walsch
#50. Mum was thinking 'bout going back to study creative twatting writing. She had a novel in her, whatever the fuck that meant. She was going to do all the stuff that having me when she was twenty had stopped her from doing. She said I'd made her tits little and taken away her identity.
Caroline Smailes
#51. My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
Tommy Lee Jones
#52. Creativity isn't a switch that's flicked on or off; it's a way of seeing, engaging and responding to the world around you.
Rod Judkins
#53. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.
Harold Bridgwood Walker
#54. Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.
Francisco Leon
#55. You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.
Brett Ratner
#56. We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?
Frazey Ford
#57. I try to live right. I always try to adhere to what I think is right, and that, to me, is the most important part of creative work.
Sam Maloof
#58. When you're 17 and you have an idea, people don't really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my parents were always pushing me to do what I wanted and be creative, and I was not used to the industry's way of thinking.
Robyn
#59. Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.
Nita Leland
#60. Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.
Eckhart Tolle
#61. Forward-thinking organizations seek hybrid professionals who are highly proficient writers, analytical, creative, and tech savvy, with strong competencies in business management, information technology (IT), and human behavior.
Paul Roetzer
#62. My thinking brain never stops my creative brain never stops so they wrestle a lot and get in fights sometimes they fight in the night and keep me up.
Shelby Lynne
#64. If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough - they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things.
Donald A. Norman
#65. I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.
Rick Moody
#66. I think when I'm cast in things, people take that as part of the package that I would like to have some sort of creative control and they know what I'm capable of, so they let me come on the day with my own ammunition.
Rhys Darby
#68. Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths
Duncan Long
#69. If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.
C. K. Prahalad
#70. Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.
David W. Earle
#71. The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to problems.
Sam Kass
#72. I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.
Josh Peck
#73. We are all thinking, willing, knowing,conscious centers of Life. We are surroundedby, immersed in, and there is flowing through us a creative something ... call it what you will.
Ernest Holmes
#74. I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.
William Fichtner
#75. I think my one of my strengths in standup is my ability to adlib. I do all my best writing on stage. I can sit down and write jokes, but I'd rather go on stage with a premise or an idea and let the jokes come that way. My creative juices are never flowing any better than when I'm onstage.
Henry Cho
#76. I think it's a blessing that the show [Dracula] is on a network because it forces everyone to use their imaginations and be creative. The power of suggestion comes back. So, in the sex scenes, no one is ever fully naked, but I feel the suggestion is so much sexier.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
#77. The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit.
David Williamson Shaffer
#78. If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.
J. Richard Hackman
#79. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
#80. I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.
William P. Young
#81. We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.
Mairead Corrigan
#82. Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
Lee Iacocca
#83. I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.
Aaron Rose
#84. I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other architects because I think they have a way of looking at the world that is really important,
Tom Kundig
#85. I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.
Michael Sheen
#86. Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you're not creative with and you're not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.
Robert Greene
#87. Most people might think that I've come from a musical background, but nobody in my family was in any kind of band or played anything. I just picked up music from breakdancing really, that's what got me to listen to music, and in general I was just a creative guy.
Lunice
#88. Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.
Mary Ruefle
#89. You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.
Emily Blunt
#90. I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in a tower and then comes out with Pet Sounds or something. I just respond to stimuli more than anything.
Blake Mills
#91. For a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever. think about money.
Paul Arden
#92. You are the only thinker in
your world and your thought
is creative. Whatever you think
about the other person, you are
also creating in your life.
Joseph Murphy
#93. Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.
David Karp
#94. Assimilating the style of predecessors is necessary before one can develop one's own. Only by immersing oneself in the domain can one find out whether there is room left for contributing creatively to it, and whether one is capable of doing so.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#95. When I dream about music, or think about music, by myself, I try to be as free as possible and allow my creative mind full reign.
John Dieterich
#96. If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology.
Douglas Rushkoff
#97. I think of there being two conditions that creative people go through. I think it's fear and curiosity.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#98. To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.
Margaret Mead
#99. A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are." I think that can be deadly for creative people.
Seamus Dever
#100. Saying no", argues the author Kevin Ashton, "has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.
Kevin Ashton
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