Jonah Lehrer Quotes

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.