In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
EDWARD DE BONOWhat the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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