Δημιουργικότητα; Τόλμη; Επιτυχία;

Κάποιοι τα είπανε πολύ καλύτερα απ’ όσο θα μπορέσω ποτέ να τα πω. Χωρίς άλλα σχόλια λοιπόν, σημειώνω κάποια τσιτάτα που με έχουν επηρεάσει στον τρόπο που βλέπω τον κόσμο, τη ζωή και τη δουλειά μου. Αν επιζητάτε τη δημιουργικότητα, καλό είναι να τα σκεφτείτε ένα προς ένα και να γίνουν εντέλει αναπόσπαστο μέρος της φιλοσοφίας σας, αλλά κυρίως της πρακτικής σας:

Imagination is more important than knowledge
Albert Einstein

The “silly” question is the first intimation of some totally new development
Alfred North Whitehead

The opposite of creativity is cynicism
Esa Saarinen

If at first an idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein
(έπ’ αυτού διάβασε και το Άβολα)

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

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

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
Thomas Disch

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
Albert Szent-Györgi

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

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

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

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

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

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
William Shedd

People cannot discover new oceans until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Anonymous

Another word for creativity is courage
George Prince

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
D. Lloyd George

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Hellen Keller

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened
Sir Winston Churchill


If you don’t create change, change will create you.
Anonymous

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.
Anonymous

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

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

In the long history of humankind (and animalkind, too), those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards
Søren Kierkergaard