Creativity

Creativity

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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

John Cage
John Cage

An American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music and one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.

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If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović

A Serbian conceptual and performance artist, philanthropist, writer, and film-maker.

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Seth Godin on Art!

Seth Godin on Art!

Art isn’t just painting pictures or composing music. It’s any activity that you pursue creatively with the aim of producing something new in the world. Maybe it’s a revolutionary customer service system, or a new form of abstract painting.

Source: The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? (Book) by Seth Godin

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The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung
Carl Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.

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It is easier to enhance creativity by changing conditions in the environment than by trying to make people think more creatively.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

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Jony Ive on Being Better
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It is very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

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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
Erich Fromm

German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.

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Sometimes a tree can tell you more than can be read in a book.

Carl Jung
Carl Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.

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Zaha Hadid Work
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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid

A British Iraqi architect from Baghdad. The "Queen of the curve", who liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity

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Barry Schwartz – People think more creatively and expansively when they are happy

All other things being equal, it’s better to be happy than not

Despite our romantic images of suffering geniuses who have enriched our civilization, creative by day and tormented by night, there is a growing body of evidence that people think more creatively and expansively when they’re happy than when they’re not.

Source: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Book) by Barry Schwartz

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