Charles Handy Quotes

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Chaos can be incredibly creative.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.