Jonah Lehrer Quotes

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Creativity is an import-export business.

Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.

People are not as imaginative as they think they are.

Creativity is about a reaction.

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

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

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

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

Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.