Creativity cannot be understood by looking only at the people who appear to make it happen.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.
Collective Thinking
Creativity
Oversimplification
Picasso had a saying — ‘good artists copy; great artists steal’ — and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
Steve Jobs
A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s and a co-founder and later a chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.
Creativity
A genuinely creative accomplishment is almost never the result of a sudden insight, a lightbulb flashing on in the dark, but comes after years of hard work.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.
Being Disciplined
Creativity
Focus
Inspiration
Whether a carpenter makes a table, or a goldsmith a piece of jewelry, whether the peasant grows his corn or the painter paints a picture, in all types of creative work the worker and his object become one, man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.
Erich Fromm
German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.