Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

Creative instinct is personal.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

Creativity is the power to act.

There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

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

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.