Quotes of: Creative-mind Keyword

A synthesis—an abstraction, chunk, or gist idea—is a neural pattern. Good chunks form neural patterns that resonate, not only within the subject we’re working in, but with other subjects and areas of our lives. The abstraction helps you transfe...

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

Something went greatly wrong in our collective history and the starting point of it was the industrial revolution. Our school systems are focussed on a single objective: to produce model citizens for society in order to feed this machine and prevent ...

Martinus Hendrikus Benders

There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. People are unique in the inner life of the mind -- what they are in their thought-world determines how they act. This is true of their value...

How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

The best lesson from the myths of Newton and Archimedes is to work passionately but to take breaks. Sitting under trees and relaxing in baths lets the mind wander and frees the subconscious to do work on our behalf. Freeman Dyson, a world-class physi...

The Myths of Innovation

The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other wor...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Genuine anger was one of the world’s great creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn’t mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind...

Wyrd Sisters

In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselve...

Friedrich Schiller

In other words, if Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy showed more than their fair share of pathology it was due less to the requirements of their creative work than to the personal sufferings caused by the unhealthy conditions of a Russian society nearing colla...

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly...

Imagine: How Creativity Works

I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.

Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.

The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

Indomitable Spirit

The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

Luna Sea’s music moves quickly but intelligibly, with a darkly frenetic, creative energy.

Jrock, Ink.: A Concise Report on 40 of the Biggest Rock Acts in Japan

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Killosophy