Brian Aldiss Quotes

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

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

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.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

Everyone is super creative in the family.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

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.

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.

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

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

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

I'm interested in creating new work.

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

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

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

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.