The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinger
It is true, necessity is the mother of invention. Sometimes you just need a clear head and having no alternatives does wonders for that.
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Pushed in a corner
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Tag Archives: Creativity
Active inspiration
You can not wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club,
Jack London
Inspiration does not suddenly appear, it has to be created. Action creates inspiration. Start getting active and you will be pleasantly suprised.
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Necessity begets ingenuity
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously.
Henry Kissinger
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About learning
As some of you may know, I am currently working on becoming a great learner and I found this to be very true:
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Abdul Kalam
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Be unrealistic
I think that there is a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have, you have to believe that something different than what has happened for the past 50 million years can happen.
Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.
What’s the point of being realistic?
It’s unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on, but fortunately Edison didn’t think so.
Will Smith
Think outside of the box or get rid of any boy once and for all. Allow yourself to believe whatever you want and think queer.
Be creative, break rules!
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Get rid of the box. What box?
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois
Crativity is awesome. Why would we still admire art that is hundres of years old?
Why are some people willing to pay millions for pieces that look like a five year old could have made them?
Because creativity is awesome and amazes all human beings. Be as creative as you can. Don’t be conservative and conform, there are enough people out there to cover that field. Be that unique snowflake thing people talk about, be the one person that brakes with the rules and after the ‘How could he do that’-Shockmoment you will win!
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Don’t ask people what they want
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky
This goes perfectly together with Henry Ford saying that if he had asked the people what they wanted, they would have asked for faster horses.
Don’t ask people what they want because in most cases they simply don’t know it themselves. Of course this is not about being an asshole and doing whatever you want, but if you want to create something you should not always listen to people giving you their demands but you should feel free to make something that feels just good.
Without this attitude there would be no cars, no light-bulbs, no iPod, no iPad, nothing brilliant or excellent.
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