The Daily Opportunity to be Creative
“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” – Miles Davis
Open Your Eyes to the Wonder of Discovery
“ The real art of discovery is not in finding new land, but in seeing with new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
Creating Possibilities: The Power of Great Vision
“ Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” – Jonathan Swift
Exploration & New Experiences: Vital Ingredients of Creativity
“Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected, and stepping outside your own experience.” – Masura Ibuka
Creativity Means Accepting Failure
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” – Edwin Land
The Creative Process: Being Wrong Can Be So Right
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”” - Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.
Creativity Can’t Blossom in the Shadow of Fear
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” - Joseph Chilton Pierce
Creativity’s Worst Enemies: Fear & Self- Doubt
“Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind”.- Don Roff
Banishing Creativity Stifling Self-Doubt
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath
The Path to Creativity: Letting Your Creative Child Shine Through
“ If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.” – Piaget
You Are Creative; Rediscovering Your Inner Child
“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘ I’d like my crayons [...]
Question Everything: Your Creativity Depends on It
““Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.” – Pablo Picasso
Creativity: Connecting Dots
“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” – William Plomer
The Creative Process: Ideas, Inspiration and Creativity
“ Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.” - Joichi Ito
Curiosity is Essential to Creativity
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett
Spark A Creative Conversation with Your Inner Child
“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.” – Stephen Nachmanovitch
Celebrating Creativity Anytime & Anywhere
“Love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.” – Brad Paisley
Imagination: Creativity’s Essential Seed
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
Making Room for Creativity
“Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.” – Dee Hock
Addicted to Creativity
“Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.” – Cecil B. DeMille
Maya Angelou on Creativity
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
The Courage to be Creative
“Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse
