Jordan Peterson Quotes

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

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

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

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 is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

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

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

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

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.