Creative Mind Forward
Daily Inspiration
“Don’t let people rent space in your head”
-Warren Dahlin
“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
– Henry Miller
“Creativity is intelligence having fun”
― Albert Einstein
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
– William S. Burroughs
“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it”
– Salvador Dali
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong ,you’ll never come up with any thing original”
– Sir Ken Robinson
“A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man’s mind.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
– William Blake
“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
– FDR, first inaugural address.
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
— Jonh Steinbeck
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity”
— John F. Kennedy
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
— Harry Truman  
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
— Pablo Picasso  
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
  — Thomas Edison    
“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
— Jonathan Swift  

The pursuit of Creativity

Creative. Mind. Forward. Creativity is a vital skill for breakthrough innovation, a key to personal happiness and a tool for bringing minds together. The mind holds the key to our culture, which is created by ourselves and can only be changed by our thoughts and actions. New ideas become a catalyst for progress, improving our lives and the lives of others. Our mission is to ignite creativity at work, at home and in public domain to help you achieve your creative potential.

Jerrie K. Lyndon is a Boston area ephemeral medium artist and creative consultant. Her...

  • 480 Rochester Memorial Elementary School students collaborated on an ephemeral mural in the courtyard wishing a warm welcome to spring! Special thanks to the staff for helping organize this one-day complex project. March 2016, Rochester, MA.      

  • A true “Collaboration” happened on January 27, 2016! Harvard students and iLab staff members were eager to be a part of the project by serving as hand models for the ephemeral mural ( dryers markers on whiteboard). The mural features 25 hands, weaving an image that is greater that the sum of the parts. Artist: […]

  • 8 years ago
    Harness Natural

    This ephemeral mural at Harvard Innovation Lab ( dry-erase markers on whiteboard) prompts the audience to brainstorm about new natural sources of energy. September 2015. Artist: Jerrie Lyndon

  • 8 years ago
    Advice

  • 9 years ago
    Use the Napkin 2015

    Billions of ideas are forgotten each day due to lack of timely documentation. Once disposed from the mind, they become  hopeless and homeless. A single-ply hero is here for the rescue, tough enough to serve as canvas for your next world-changing thought or your insightful observation. Save your ideas, use the napkin! Creative Mind Forward presents a new project intended to boost […]

  • July 2, 2015, at 6pm Creativity 101 Location: Groundwork, 1213 Purchase St, 2nd Floor, New Bedford, MA 02740 Cost: $10 Discover your creative self! Through a series of mindful exercises (including improvisation and meditation) Jerrie Lyndon, Creative Mastermind at Creative Mind Forward, will demonstrate ways of engaging your mind in creative thinking. This is a low-key, playful workshop that will likely inspire […]

  • Chalk Art Tribute to Sidewalk Sam June 6, 2015 – Chalk Artist Jerrie K. Lyndon created a large-scale participatory chalk drawing durig the Cambridge River Festival to commemorate the artwork of Robert Guillemin, best known as Sidewalk Sam (1939 – 2015). Sidewalk Sam, founder of ArtStreet Inc., created reproductions of European masterpieces as well as participatory […]

  • Once in a great while a book crosses your path and instantly becomes a friend. Some friends don’t need an introduction, yet leave a tremendous impact on your ideas and thoughts. After reading Creativity, Inc, you will want to give up your current life path, move to Everyville, California, to work for a place that […]

  • -Warren Dahlin

  • – Henry Miller

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