“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
Beatrix Potter
Creativity, an individual or group activity?
July 20, 2007 By Leave a Comment
“The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
Charles Brower
Now I’m not quite sure I agree with this. I have had success both working on my own and with groups.
I think the bottom line is what sort of group you have. If you have a group of people who regularly exercise their creative muscles the ideas will come thick and fast, of course you’ll need to filter the ones that are so leftfield they aren’t practical, but that is one of the joys of being with this sort of group; ideas grow exponetially. On the other hand, if you have a group of grey suits whose primary concern is the bottom line, then creativity by committee may well be a lost cause.
Sometimes it really does feel this way
July 13, 2007 By Leave a Comment
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people”
Thomas Mann
Use your capacity
July 5, 2007 By Leave a Comment
“The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities”
Frank Barron
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Don’t grow old gracefully
June 25, 2007 By Leave a Comment
“No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.”
John Cassavetes
It is time to live
June 15, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Life is “trying things to see if they work”.
Ray Bradbury
Go and live a little, have an idea and be creative with it.
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Muse missing? Try a different metaphor
June 7, 2007 By Leave a Comment
“When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
Mary Kay Ash
Go on, you know you want to
May 18, 2007 By Leave a Comment
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come”
Victor Hugo
Sometimes when the creative idea arrives you really don’t need to do much at all, apart from going with the flow.
True creativity is the middle road?
April 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment
“To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.”
Go on break the rules… don’t copy; create.
Exteme creativity dude
April 18, 2007 By Leave a Comment
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club”
Jack London
Although, to be honest, a more sedate approach will yield results too.