Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward de Bono

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

Edward de Bono

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

Edward de Bono

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

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Edward de Bono

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

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

Edward de Bono

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

Edward de Bono

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Edward de Bono

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Edward Albee

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

Edward Albee

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

Eckhart Tolle

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

Eckhart Tolle

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Hermann Hesse

Solitude is independence.

Henri Poincare

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Henri Matisse

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Heston Blumenthal

As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things wont work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.

Henry Selick

I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.

Henry Selick

Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

Henry Paulson

As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.

Helen Mirren

What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge, great Neanderthal thing, it's hard to create that little space of peace, and calm, and creativity, and ease. That's what you want the director to create for you, so that when you walk on the set, you forget all of that, and the fact that it's costing gazillions of dollars a second.

Henry Kravis

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

John Maeda

Creativity's about ownership.

Jim Rohn

Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"

Jim Rohn

Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

Jim Rohn

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Brittany Murphy

They were like kids in a sandbox. It was a great feeling watching their creativity spread to everyone.

Stephen Colbert

They thought it was warping their children's minds. Which it might have been, but it also took a lot of creativity to play it.

-You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. -What mood is that? -Last-minute panic.

It?s an open-ended project so their creativity flows.