Creativity

Creativity

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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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  • Creativity & Ideas
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iPod Copy Cats Plagiarism
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Picasso had a saying — ‘good artists copy; great artists steal’ — and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Steve Jobs
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.

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Creativity cannot be understood by looking only at the people who appear to make it happen.

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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  • Collective Thinking
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  • Oversimplification
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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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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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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
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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  • Being Disciplined
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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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When people are anxious they tend to narrow their thought processes, concentration upon aspects directly relevant to a problem. This is a useful strategy in escaping from danger, but not in thinking of imaginative new approaches to a problem.

Donald A. Norman
Donald A. Norman

An American researcher, professor, and author (The Design of Everyday Things). As Apple’s User Experience Architect (90's), he became the first person to have UX in his job title.

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Without creativity, it would be difficult indeed to distinguish humans from apes.

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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Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

Keri Smith
Keri Smith

Canadian conceptual artist and author of several bestselling books including How to be an Explorer of the World - The Portable Life/Art Museum.

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  • Perception
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