Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

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.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

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

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

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.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Creativity is just connecting things.

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.

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

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

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

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

We can always find creative ways to do things.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.