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  

Useful Links

Sunday, February 16th, 2014

Limitations lead to creative liberation

Another great inspiring TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/phil_hansen_embrace_the_shake.html

Sunday, August 4th, 2013

Cross-cultural study of Creativity

Have you heard of the EU-funded project, ‘Creativity across cultures’, led by researchers at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg?  The European Union is taking the concept of economic growth via creativity seriously. And so should the...

Sunday, June 9th, 2013

Teaching creativity classes to college students

Kudos to William & Mary! Wouldn’t it be nice if Universities embraced the idea of teaching creativity skills as part of any degree program? Follow the link to the article on William & Mary’s website http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2013/tolerating-ambiguity-inside-the-creativity-classroom-123.php

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

Creativity and Leadership Link

Great Opinion piece in the May 22, 2013, Wall Street Journal about leadership and creativity. Quoting the author of the article, Justin Brady: “The process of real creativity is messy, chaotic, sometimes even disgusting, and it reeks...

Saturday, May 11th, 2013

Creativity at the workplace: The Energy Business

It is only a matter of time that companies across different fields will start paying attention to the development of creative environments and thinking at the workplace. Here is an example from the energy business: http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/05/08/noble-energy-fosters-creativity-to-find-more-oil-and-gas/

Saturday, May 11th, 2013

Creative Environments: inspired in a shed

A nice article in the Independent highlighting artists who produced famous works using sheds as their creative studios. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/a-recording-studio-in-the-garden-how-creativity-comes-in-shedloads-8609485.html

Saturday, March 9th, 2013

“Search bar” poetry

Navigating a technologically-dependent world can sprout creativity in mundane situations – let’s take googling as example. I, personally, use Google with such frequency that the search engine replaced a wise grandmother I never had. I can ask...

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

Watch what you think!

In “Acquiring a Creative Mind” Creativity Expert Eric Maisel talks about nurturing the creative thoughts instead of wasting your thoughts on mundane negativity that gets you nowhere. Be mindful of your thought process – save your neurons...

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

On having a creative genius

Many are familiar with the bestseller “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert – a story about finding strength, inner peace and love through travel, observation and self-discovery. As inspiring as the book was, what is more powerful...

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Thank you, Michelle Obama!

In recent years the budgets for creativity have been cut or reduced and imagining your own dream became much more financially difficult than following some one else’s dream. It is not every day we get reminded about the...

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