Umberto Eco Quotes

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.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

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

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

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

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

Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways

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.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

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 creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

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

You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

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

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.