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Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.
... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.
The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient read more
The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my read more
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which read more
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer read more
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke.
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
