Richard Florida Quotes

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

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

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

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this.

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

I care about being creative and productive.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain - they innovate, creating more for everyone else.

Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.