Probably, humanity has almost always lived in this somnambulistic state in which ideas are not a wide-awake, conscious reaction to things, but a blind, automatic habit, drawn from a repertory of formulae which the atmosphere infuses into the individual.
Author: José Ortega y Gasset | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation
Innovation springs from many sources…
Necessity: the mother of invention.
Experience: the wisdom to recognize what must be changed.
Inexperience: the fearlessness to follow instincts.
Intelligence: the wits to make things happen.
Drive: the need to do it first and to do it best.
Persistence: the strength to see it through.
Author: Unknown | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation, Personal Improvement
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
Author: Mary Oliver | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation, Life & Society, Personal Improvement
All of us, to some extent, borrow from others, from the culture around us. Ideas are in the air, and we may appropriate, often without realizing, the phrases and language of the times. We borrow language itself; we did not invent it. We found it, we grew up into it, though we may use it, interpret it, in very individual ways. What is at issue … [ Read more ]
Author: Oliver Sacks | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation, Life & Society, Personal Improvement
Creativity involves not only years of conscious preparation and training but unconscious preparation as well. This incubation period is essential to allow the subconscious assimilation and incorporation of one’s influences and sources, to reorganize and synthesize them into something of one’s own…. The essential element in these realms of retaining and appropriating versus assimilating and incorporating is one of depth, of meaning, of active and … [ Read more ]
Author: Oliver Sacks | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation
Here’s the thing about inspiration: It has to be earned. Someone is inspiring not because they look at you with big eyes and ask you to find it in your heart to believe in their dream. It’s because they actually have a dream that’s worth getting excited about. And those dreams don’t come lightly. They come from blood, sweat, and tears. Inspiration is like love. … [ Read more ]
Author: Chris Anderson | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation, Leadership, Life & Society
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
Author: Michael J. Gelb | Subject: Creativity and Innovation