Creative Minds Quotes

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

I feel like a lot of creative people are socially awkward.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

Terry Gilliam is one of the greatest brains I ever met.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.

Me and Kanye work awesome together. He's a creative man, I'm a creative man, we put our ideas together, it's like the perfect formula.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.

Retaining a child-like sense of wonder is a boon for creative types like Steven Spielberg and J. K. Rowling.

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're doing. They tend to be 26 years old and highflying. They often have a very childlike mind, with some naivete.

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

Talented people are restless at their core.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.