Jonah Lehrer Quotes

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

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

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

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

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

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

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

Every problem has a creative solution.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

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.

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

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.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

All children have creative power.

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

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.