How To Become A Creative Genius

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between your two brain hemispheres: your left and right brains.

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stimulating and experiential an activity is, the more they learn.

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1. Know the Fundamental Skills of Creative Thinking
2. Develop these Fundamental Thinking Skills with Juxtaerobix
3. Discover the revolutionary learning approach of JUICE and
how it relates to the Creativity Process
4. Famous Creativity Quotes

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1. Know The Fundamental Skills of Creative Thinking

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it.”
- Descartes

Seizing The Opportunity

One of the most fundamental skills of creativity is the ability to see an opportunity and
seize it.

Every day, we are faced with countless opportunities to develop our creative thinking
skills. Such opportunities present themselves while we are at home with the kids, going
robix: to work, at the workplace, at board meetings, out to lunch, or hanging out in the pubs
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our creativity
with our friends.

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There is in fact no shortage of encounters for us to develop our creativity. The real challenge is
to recognize these moments as opportunities for seizing and for creative outburst.

Challenging Assumptions
Many inventions were the result of people who were willing to challenge assumptions that exis
during their time.
 People tend to see only what they think to see. Every time we look at something
is in our world, we make our own assumptions about the reality before us. We b
our lives and decisions on those assumptions we make. If we accept those
assumptions as real and concrete, we will live by them. However, the momen
someone chooses to challenge those same assumptions as “unreal”, he or she ma
on the road to discovering something new and different.
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p your vocabulary to look beyond what is already accepted or is obvious. It can lead to the kind
perceptual breakthroughs we are looking for in the problems before us.
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Oftentimes our assumptions of things are so entrenched that it never crosses our minds to chal
them. These assumptions are apparently so established that we no longer question their valid
even though time has passed and things have changed. We are so used to them that we simp
accept them as they are.

But many of our life‚s problems are tainted with false assumptions and they prevent us from thi
something new and different. They stifle our creativity and the result is the more or less the sam
robix of tried solutions. No new and novel possibilities.
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Taking Risks
_______ Taking risks is part and parcel of being a creative thinker.

If you’re not willing to take risks (and these can include calculated risks) and
experience failure, then you cannot expect to be a great creative thinker. No one truly
succeeds without failing first. And no one truly becomes a creative genius without
having to “risk his ideas.”

However, if you really want to experience major leaps in your creativity, then you’ll have to lea
take risks. You’ll fail but failure is good: it accelerates the learning process by generating ne
information and science has shown that our brain literally rewires itself each time we make
mistake. Our brain learns through a series of trials and errors.

Looking At Problems From A New Perspective

No new ideas will evolve from old perspectives. To create a new product, you must be able t
visualize that new product. But you cannot do this if you keep looking at your problem
from the same perspective.

You got to look at your problems from a new perspective in order to gain new insights.
By changing your perspective and shifting to a new one, you will be able to expand
your mental horizon and capture something you were previously unable to see. Only
by seeing something new, will you be able to think up new ideas and create something new

Thinking Ambiguously
The ability to think ambiguously is a great boon to yielding creative insights.
 This same ability is being exhibited every time someone indulges in wordplay or humor.

People who can think ambiguously are known to be fluid and flexible thinkers. A tinge of ambig
thinking during the idea generation stage of the creative process has the power to bring out a g
of an idea!

However, the main problem in our society is that people generally prefer things that are clear
unambiguous. They don’t like to associate themselves with things that are vague and have more
one meaning. As a result, we become rather rigid in the way we think, preferring to be involve
only things that have clear and specific parameters. The outcome: predictability.

. Develop The Fundamental Skills of Creative Thinking with

Juxtaerobix

Juxtaerobix workouts are an excellent type of mental aerobics that provides the
necessary stimuli to the two halves of your whole brain!

Juxtaerobix does it by getting the two brains to talk and work together! A classic
case of “Two heads are better than one.”

Juxtaerobix is a series of high impact, high fun energy and mentally gyrating
workouts for the whole brain. Juxtaerobix is to our brain what aerobics is to our
body.

The word Juxtaerobix is a hybrid word derived from "juxtaposition" meaning the art
of placing things side by side to conjure new meaning; and "aerobics" depicting
workouts that generate the efficient taking of oxygen supply into our bodies.

Juxtaerobix as a series of brain workouts is powered by the art form of Word

Juxtapoz®.

The Physical Attributes Of A Juxtaerobix Workout

Each Juxtaerobix workout consists of some left brain element(s) and right brain
element(s): words, letters, symbols (left-brain) and pictures, images, cartoons,
illustrations, visuals, colors (right-brain). These are the left-brain logic, structure and
organization components and the right-brain creating conceptualization and
visualization components.

Put simply, the left hemisphere of our brain has the primary function of distilling
information down into component parts for analysis and sequencing. It quantifies,
establishes procedures, recognizes words and symbols, organizes, plans; it’s logical,
analytical, systematic, practical, rational, critical, numerate, mathematical, and
accomplishes tasks. This side of our brain is largely associated with our language
ability.
The right side of our brain is designed to see the world as a whole and has the ability
to synthesize parts to form a whole. It imagines, infers, speculates, feels, responds
to touch and music; it’s sensitive, intuitive, emotional, curious, expressive, holistic,
visual, and originative. This right of our brain is largely associated with our spatial
appreciation.

By employing the art of Word Juxtapoz® "(which is created by Patrick Chan),

Juxtaerobix is formed or conceptualized through the clever juxtaposition of left- and
right-brain elements of words, letters of the alphabet, symbols, punctuation points,
visuals, pictures, images, illustrations and even colors to depict meanings or
messages that are not apparent. One has to navigate through the maze of elements
and discover their relationships between one another in order to decipher the hidden
meaning or "solution". The message is in fact in the medium itself.

Hence in sum, each Juxtaerobix workout compels a user to develop his or her natural
whole brain thinking. The ultimate outcome: A holistic creative thinker!

Juxtaerobix: Develop Your Creativity Thinking Skills While You're Having

Fun
1. Juxtaerobix as a series of high impact, high fun energy and mentally gyrating
workouts for the whole brain, provides ample opportunities for you to seize to
liberate the creative child inside you.

2. Juxtaerobix presents the necessary stimuli that will elicit certain responses and
your particular response will depend on the assumptions you make. When you
successfully challenge some of your assumptions, you will finally see the light to the
hidden code behind each Juxtaerobix teaser.
3. Because Juxtaerobix brain workouts involve only the risks of idea generation and
not the risks of implementation, you can “safely” force yourself to be willing to
suggest whatever ideas pop up.

4. Each Juxtaerobix workout will help you produce new perspectives, and see
problems with association, combining problem elements, or eliciting responses to
various stimuli. In each case, the outcome is the same: new ways of thinking about
a problem.

5. The best way to tackle Juxtaerobix is to think ambiguously. The more you’re able
to do so, the more insights to the “suggested solution” you’ll receive. By thinking
ambiguously, you’re actually going with the flow and design of the Juxtaerobix.
Conversely, rigid thinking will only bring about frustration.
 3. Discover the revolutionary learning approach of JUICE and
how it relates to the Creativity Process

This section will be of particular interest to all educators, teachers and trainers.

There’s a revolutionary new and cutting edge approach to infusing creativity into any
curriculum – whether it’s the teaching of English, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics,
Science, History, Engineering, Humanities, or Management!

The Juxtaerobix Unusually Innovative & Creative Edvantage

It’s called JUICE or Juxtaerobix Unusually Innovative & Creative Edvantage (where
“Edvantage” stands for Educational Advantage) and it is a simple and practical
approach to real-life creative thinking, creative learning, creative problem-solving
and creative living.

JUICE employs the power of Juxtaerobix workouts.

Its value as a learning and thinking tool is simply remarkable: JUICE mirrors the
real-life creative thinking process and empowers an educator to infuse creativity
seamlessly into the learning process!

Why JUICE?
Learning is most fundamentally a mental process. It's basically a brain transfer. It
involves the brain and all its senses.

However, most learning in the classroom is obsessed with finding the right answer.
JUICE turns this quest for a definite "solution to a problem" completely on its head-
upside-down!

It was Neil Postman, an educator, who lamented, "Children enter schools as

question marks and leave as periods."

The Approach honors the process of thinking and views it as much more important
than the search for an "answer". After all, it's in our journey of self-discovery -
thinking, learning, solving problems, and living life itself - that we discover who we
are, why we are who we are, what we want to do, how we want to do, and where we
want to go.

JUICE provides a simplistic and yet practical real-life environment in which we can
flourish creatively in the way we think, learn, solve problems and enjoy life.
 The result: A more creative thinker in every one of us! Better yet, we become true
practitioners of creativity!

It's a model of experiential learning or "real-life living" (we prefer to call it) where
the process of discovery or learning is the very process of creativity itself. This
indeed is the real power of JUICE!

JUICE Epitomizes The Creativity Process

Juxtaerobix will change the way we look at creativity and problem-solving! From it,
you will learn and realize that the creative process is not at all a mysterious one
which is practiced only by those who are blessed with natural creative talents. You
will get to experience, perhaps for the first time, the practical steps of creativity used
by great thinkers to come up with great ideas.

In order to appreciate the value of an approach to learning and teaching like JUICE,
we need to understand the stages or process of creativity itself.

It’s now generally accepted by almost all creativity experts and practitioners that the
creativity process can be distilled down to a few steps or phases.

Phase 1: Problem Identification/Definition

The primary impetus of creativity is the realization of a problem. That there’s a

problem at hand and you need a creative solution to it. This stage of the creative
 problem solving process is called the Problem Identification or Definition phase.

It’s when you size up the problem before and attempt to define it by establishing its
parameters. Here you immerse yourself in the problem, searching out any
information that might be relevant. It’s when you let your imagination roam free,
open yourself to anything that is even vaguely relevant to the problem. The idea is
to gather a broad range of data so that unusual and unlikely elements can begin to
juxtapose themselves. Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a
crucial skill here.

Phase 2: Idea Generation

Here, you generate a large number of ideas. This stage of the creative thinking
process should be freeing and characterized by inspiration, spontaneity,
experimentation, intuition and without fear.

It is at this stage that you want to be careful about not judging the validity or
feasibility of your ideas. Let your ideas flow and suspend judgment or self-censorship
for the moment.

Great thinkers have discovered that they can only achieve their full creative potential
by learning how to separate idea generation from idea evaluation. They know how to
generate as many ideas as possible way before analyzing them.

Phase 3: Incubation
 This is the “sleeping on the problem” stage.
Once you have mulled over all the relevant information, you leave the problem to
simmer. At this Incubation stage, you chew on all the data you have collated and
wait almost passively. You will have to trust your subconscious mind to do all the
work. You literally let your mind “sleep on the problem.”

Phase 4: Illumination

This is probably the most exciting phase. It’s that part of the creativity process that
seemingly makes all the effort and work worthwhile.

In this Illumination phase, you’ll experience the sudden bubbling up of the answer.
The creative solution or solutions seem to come to you out of the blue. The
Illumination stage is generally described as the “Eureka!” moment.

Phase 5: Verification

This is the final stage of the dynamic creativity process. Called the Verification stage,
here you look back over the other phases and evaluate your progress.

Summary Of The Creativity Process

 Here’s How JUICE Works
In JUICE, the starting point is a specially conceptualized Juxtaerobix workout.

This teaser serves as the catalyst to spark off the users on a journey of creative self-
discovery: it provides the "problem" or situation, motivates the users to free
associate to discover for themselves the possible "solutions", helps them document
all their free-flowing ideas along the way, takes them through the step-by-step
process of creative thinking, brings them to a stage called "Eureka!" and aids them
to arrive at the possible or suggested "answers" to the initial problem.

Put simply, here's how it works:

- There's a beginning called the "Problem" (represented by a Juxtaerobix workout)
- The creative thinking process (Idea generation, Incubation, Illumination)
- The end or the Verification (represented by the answer to the Juxtaerobix)
- Juxtaerobix models the very process of day-to-day creative thinking and replicates
it in the classroom setting!

JUICE works with the user, rides on the current brain-ware of the user, and
customizes a creativity process that fits him or her. It harnesses the power of self-
 paced learning according to the mental capabilities of each individual user -
observing the fundamental and sacred rule that every on has his unique DNA.

Talk about having the exact right software that runs optimally on a particular piece
of hardware!

The Ten Guiding Principles Of The JUICE

#1. There is no one right answer.
#2. The virtue is the thinking and free-associating.
#3. Whole brain means WHOLE brain creativity - always harness the power of your
whole (not half) brain.
#4. Suspend judgment - especially during the idea generation phase.
#5. Let there be FUN!
#6. Learning is must fundamentally a MENTAL process.
#7. If at first you can't think of it, think again. And again. And again.
#8. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of them.
#9. Involve as many senses as possible.
#10. For sense of security of completeness, most people need things to have a
beginning, a middle, and an end.

Who Is JUICE For?

For a start, JUICE is for anybody who "thinks" that he has a brain! If you think that
you have a brain and you want (you arrive at this conclusion after some self-
discovery) to sharpen your thinking skills, then welcome to the world of Juxtaerobix!

More seriously, JUICE is perfect for any learner (whether he learns best through
visualizing (V), hearing (A) or involving his hands and feelings (K) or a combination
of these VAK modes). It appeals to left-brainers and right-brainers as well. People of
all personality types - sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic, choleric or a blend of any
of these four types - will find this creative approach very suitable. (After all, no
matter what type or blend we are, we all have been putting up with uninspiring and
boring classroom teaching for so long.)

I want to be very bold (I'm a known risk-taker) to tell you that the "J" in Juxtaerobix
stands for "Jump start one's brain". For many learners who have been unjustly
labeled by others including their mentors as "dumb" or "stupid", Juxtaerobix may
just empower them by jump starting their God-given built-in supercomputer and
grant them their last laugh. More specifically, their close encounter with Juxtaerobix
may be the spark - and the only spark they would ever need of creativity that
propels them to a lifetime of excellence!

JUICE is for ANYONE who wants to be FREE - free to think, free to dream, free to
associate, free to live and even free to make mistakes. And this class of people
includes the educator and the like.

The Educational Genius Of JUICE

The value of JUICE as a learning, thinking and teaching tool is simply remarkable. It
epitomizes all the fundamental elements of creativity, creative thinking and creative
learning:
1. JUICE takes the user through a journey of self-discovery.
2. JUICE promotes "safe" risk-taking.
3. JUICE offers opportunities for seizing.
4. JUICE encourages the challenging of entrenched assumptions.
 5. JUICE compels the user to look at problems from a new perspective.
6. JUICE enhances ambiguous thinking.
7. JUICE gives permission for people to engage in blue-sky thinking (or
daydreaming).
8. JUICE increases the mental capacity for one to recall information.
9. JUICE workouts track the progress of the user's development in thinking skills.
10. JUICE teaches one to suspend judgment during idea generation.
11. JUICE is fun and mentally stimulating.
12. JUICE opens the world for the Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic (VAK) learners.
13. JUICE develops "big picture" vision by showing the connectivity of diverse
elements.
14. JUICE creates creative thinkers almost stealthily.
15. Most of all, JUICE works!

This cutting edge approach - which is in short a real-life creative learning technique -
serves as an effective means of infusing creative thinking into various subject
matters when applied to them.

4. Famous Creativity Quotes

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats

phrases and thinks in a groove.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you
chip away everything that doesn‚t look like an elephant.
- Source Unknown

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

- Frank Capra

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a
vision, a dream of the whole thing.
- Charles M. Schwab

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by
a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
- Charles Brower

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
- Nikos Kazantzakis

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from
others.
- Konosuke Matsushita
 A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
- Duke Ellington

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

- Gerald G. Jampolsky

A will finds a way.

- Orison Swett Marden

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
- Pablo Picasso

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso

All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
- C H Oakhurst

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
- Robert Collier

All you ever needed to know you learn in kindergarten.

- Unknown

An avalanche begins with a snowflake.

- Joseph Compton

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

- Dr. Edwin Land

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
- Unknown

An idea is salvation by imagination.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
- Arnold Glascow

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour, springs and germinates no
 more.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
- Charles Mingus

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him
down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
- Marian Anderson

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

- Lao Tzu

As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many
dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion
performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone
who is detached.
- Andrei Voznesensky

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose

and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the
slaves of the ordinary.
- Sir Cecil Beaton

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

- Unknown

Be not afraid of learning slowly, be afraid of standing still.

- Unknown

Begin with another's to end with your own.

- Baltasar Gracian

Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow.

- T S Eliot

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

- Alvin Toffler

Change only favors minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
 - Louie Pasteur

Children reinvent your world for you.

- Susan Sarandon

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of

eighteen.
- Unknown

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

- Pablo Picasso

Concern over criticism clogs creativity.

- Duane Alan Hahn

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

- Oscar Wilde

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

- Bernard Berenson

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
- Anna Freud

Creative novelty springs largely from the rearrangement of the existing knowledge, a
rearrangement that is itself an addition to knowledge.
- J. Kneller

Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by
adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and
where appropriate profits.
- Edward de Bono

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the
river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work
of art or poem.
- Rollo May

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find
out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at
what we normally take for granted.
- George Kneller

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

- Gail Sheehy
 Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by
originality overcomes everything.
- Geroge Lois

Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea.
- Charles Thompson

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes.

- Scott Adams

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking

rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
- Mary Lou Cook

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative
when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
- John Updike

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

- Thomas Disch

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

- Edwin H. Land

Creativity is the type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the
same individual.
- Arthur Koestler

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

- Theodore Levitt

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

different way.
- Edward de Bono

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that
right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

- Erich Fromm

Creativity - the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

- William Plomer

Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

 - Albert Einstein

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
- Samuel Johnson

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a
winning game.
- Goethe

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you
just dig.
- Marcus Aurelius

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has
thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyl

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

- Noam Chomsky

During those rare moments of creativeness, when an ordinary person has something in
common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence, of moving
beyond his daily life. What could be a greater
reward?
- Joseph Zinker

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and

thinking something different.
- Albert Szent Gyorgi

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

- Noam Chomsky

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- Unknown

Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them
surprise you with the results.
- General George Patten

Doodling is the brooding of the mind.

- Unknown

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that
is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving
toward an important goal.
 - Maxwell Maltz

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just stand there.
- Will Rogers

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
- Jacob Bronowski

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

- Tom Stoppard

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of

imagination.
- John Dewey

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

- Robert Olson

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- Robert Olson

Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you and just before you
realise what's wrong with it.
- Anonymous

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human
creations.
- Albert Einstein

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international
reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw

Focus should be to encourage and develop creativity in all children without the ultimate
goal being to make all children inventors, but rather to develop a future generation of
critical thinkers.
- Faraq Mousa

Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

- Thomas Edison

Genius lies in developing complete and perfect freedom within a human being. Only then
can a person come up with the best ideas.
 - Yoshiro Nakamatsu

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual

way. - William James

Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in
at a glance, and a lack of harmony of proportion is rapidly seen.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Great idea, more than anything else, fuel corporate growth.

- Alan G. Robinson

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre

minds.
- Albert Enstein

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Half the failures in life arise from pulling on one's horse as it is leaping.
- Julius Hare

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the
thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.

- Joseph Joubert

He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries.
- Unknown

Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas
worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.
- Robert M. Hayes

How many people know how to use a computer on their desk but don't know how to use
the computer in their head?
- Unknown

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
- Gilda Radner
I can‚t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I‚m frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and

pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
- Igor Stravinsky

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

- Auguste Rodin

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it‚s
a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and
that enables you to laugh at life‚s realities.
- Dr. Seuss

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning.
Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
- Miles Davis

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare;
My business is to create.
- Unknown

I pressed down on the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.
- P G Wodehouse

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people
that call others weird that are weird.
- Paul McCartney

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon
you have a dozen.
- John Steinbeck

Ideas shape the course of history.

- John Maynard Keynes

If a concept is wrong, no number of ideas will put it right.

- Unknown

If at first, the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it.

- Albert Einstein
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
 - Isaac Newton

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it‚s to deliver poeple from the limited ways in
which they see and feel.
- Jim Morrison

If you can dream it, you can do it.

- Walt Disney

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should
be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
- Cher

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all
directions.
- Goethe

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the
mature than in the young.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Imagination is better than memory.

- Unknown

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we
currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and
create.
- Albert Einstein

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

- George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
- James Russell Lowell

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
- Shunryu Suzuki

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into
his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes
 this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.
- E.M. Forster

In the dim background of our mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we
cannot start.
- William James
In the long history of humankind (and animalkind, too) those who learned to collaborate
and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

- Unknown

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

- Ned Rorem

Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, we need to help them grind a new set
of eyeglasses so that we can see the world in a new way.
- J S Brown

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
- Edward de Bono

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled
at a time.
- Winston Churchill

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by
having no ideas at all.
- Edward de Bono

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

- Alex Osborne

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

It is not enough to just do your best or work hard. You must know what to work on.
- W. Edwards Deming

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and
unexpected findings of science.
- Carl Sagan
 It's better to ask some good questions than to know all the answers.
- James Thurber

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their
highest perfection.
- Thomas Macaulay

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
- Charles Du Bos

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is
innovation the vital spark of all human change,
improvement and progress.
- Theodore Levitt

Knowledge is created by the learner, not given by the teacher.

- Unknown

Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must
aim well ahead of the target to hit it.
- Raymond Kurzweil

Learning is a treasury whose keys are queries.

- Arabian Proverb

Life changes when we change.

- Andrew Matthews

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly
of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through
one's head.
- Mark Twain

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. We all have gears we never use.

- Chrales Schultz

Life is "trying things to see if they work."

- Ray Bradbury

Light tomorrow with today.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,

awesomely simple, that‚s creative.
- Charles Mingus
 Man is the only animal that can get bored.
- Unknown

Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Liver Wendell Holmes

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they
sprang up.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Martin Luther king said "I have a dream", not "I have a plan".
- Unknown

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

- Jules Combarie

Musical comedies aren't written, they are re-written.

- Stephen Sondheim

Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural
resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries we are competing for - the
industries of the future - are all based on brainpower.
- Lester Thurow

Neccesity is the mother of invention, it is true - but its father is creativity, and knowledge
is the midwife.
- Jonathan Schattke

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Malcolm Muggeridge

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching

but at the same time steady eye.
- Winston Churchill

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all
should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build
confidence in the creative spirit.
- Ansel Adams

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the
 man-child alive.
- John Cassavetes

No one travels so high as he who knows not where he is going.

- Oliver Cromwell

None of us are as smart as all of us.

- Japanese Proverb

Nothing is new except arrangement.

- William J. Durant

Nothing, not all the answers in the world can stop an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
- Virginia Woolf

One of the most powerful inner resources is your own creativity. Be willing to try
something new and play the game full out.
- Marcia Wieder

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
- G.K. Chesterton

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

- Voltaire

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard
it.
- Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.
- John C. Maxwell

Our life is frittered away by detail ... Simplify, Simplify.

- Henry Thoreau

Persistence is the hard work that you do after you are tired of doing the hard work you
already did.
- Newt Gingrich

People are disturbed, not by things, but by the views they take of them.
- Epictetus

People change and forget to tell each other.

 - Lillian Hellman

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the
conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.
- Winston Churchill

Problems and solutions nest within a complex array of related systems and problems.
- Bob Weile

Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were
created.
- Albert Einstein

Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

- Albert Einstein

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the
entrepreneurial spirit.
- Daniel Goleman

Sense is not common.

- Unknown

Since finding out what something is is largely a matter of discovering what it is like, the
most impressive contribution to the growth of intelligibility has been made by the
application of suggestive metaphors.
- Jonathan Miller

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate
and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
- George Washington Carver

Some men throw their gifts away on a life of mediocrity, great men throw everything
they have into their gifts and achieve a life of success.
- Greg Werner

Someone once said that for every problem there is a solution that is simple, attractive ...
and wrong.
- Arthur C Clarke

Sometimes searching for ideas is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony. You know
what you want to do, but you don't know where to begin.
- Michael Michalko
 Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
- Lauren Becall

Teachers open the windows of the mind, but you must enter by yourself.
- Chinese Proverb

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the
originality.
- Beatrix Potter

That human mind is like a parachute - it functions better when it is open.

- Cole's Rules

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

- Henry Ward Beecher

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

- Andrei Voznesensky

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky,
from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
- Pablo Picasso

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity
and familiarity.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

The best cosmetic in the world is an active mind that ia always finding something new.
- Mary Atkeson

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

- Linus Pauling

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Robert Tucker

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts the moment you get up in the morning and does
not stop until you get to the office.
- Robert Frost

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by instinct acting
 from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung

The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

- Edwin H. Land

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.
- Douglas Adams

The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The important thing is to not stop questioning.

- Albert Einstein

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom.
Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
- Saul Steinberg

The man with a new idea is a crank - until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who
walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
- Alan Ashley-Pitt

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
- Michelangelo

The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which
may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions,
new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination
and marks real advances in science.
- Albert Einstein

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed my men.

- Ortega Y Gassett

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
- John Milton
The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as
the future.
- Joseph Conrad

The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and
give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.
- W. Edwards Deming

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

- Arthur Koestler

The more you think, the more time you have.

- Henry Ford

The obvious is always least understood.

- Prince Metternich

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

- James Broughton

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have
imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
- Charles F. Kettering

The opposite of creativity is cynicism.

- Esa Saarinen

The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream.

- Author Unknown

The Possible‚s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

- Emily Dickinson

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose
horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that
never were.
- John F. Kennedy

The profit of great ideas comes when you turn them into reality.
- Tom Hopkins

The purpose of today's learning is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

- Miyamoto Musashi

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

- Rebecca P. Sinkler
 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Unknown

The 'silly' question is the first intimation of some totally new

development.
- Alfred North Whitehead

The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to
transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most
treasured of all human capacities.
- Frank Barron

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- Dale Carnegie

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

- Thomas G. Halliburton

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the
primary sources of creativity.
- Margaret J. Wheatley

The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not.
- W. Gordon

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative
mind to spot wrong questions.
- Anthony Jay

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing
constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it
exists.
- Charles Dickens

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.

- Henry David Thoreau

The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates
problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them.
- Albert Einstein

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking
 questions.
- Charles Steinmetz

There are no problems - only opportunities to be creative.

- Dorye Roettger

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with
the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso

There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them.
- Niels Bohr

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an
environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
- Warren G. Bennis

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they
are under the influence of imagination.
- Edmund Burke

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 de Bono

There is no limit to what a man can achieve as long as he doesn't care who get's the credit
- Bob Woodruff

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected

outcomes.
- Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

- Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

- Marie Antoinette

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
- Antonio Porchia

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream
 only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think,
creation's.
- E M Forster

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
- Doris Lessing

Thinking is the hardest work of all, and that's why so few of us do it.
- Henry Ford

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

- Swedish Proverb

To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid.

- Yaqui Mystic

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

- Lichtenberg

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself

endlessly.
- Henri L Bergson

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

-Joseph Chilton Pierce

To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to grow intellectually.

- J.P. Guilford

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle
requires a creative imagination and marks the real advances in science.
- Albert Einstein

To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us
stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and
courage.
- Erich Fromm

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
- George Kneller

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that
they are the result of the experience through outside
 contact.
- Konosuke Matsushita

We do not see the world as it is, we see it as we are.

- Unknown

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

- Alfred Whitehead

What is now proved was once only imagined.

- William Blake

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

- Dean William R. Inge

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.

- Walter Lippman

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to
solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is
wrong.
- Buckminster Fuller

When a finger points to the moon the imbecile looks at the finger.
- Chinese Proverb

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
- Mae West

When the way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through.
- I Ching

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a
better mouse.
- James Carswell

Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have
lost in information?
- T.S. Elliot

Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're
absolutely right.
- Henry Ford
 You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their
best.
- Steve Jobs

You can't shoot an idea.

- Thomas E. Dewey

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

- Nietzsche

You see things: you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never are: and say 'Why not?'.
- George Bernard Shaw

You think that because you understand ONE you understand TWO, because one and one
makes two. But you must understand AND.