Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.
… embrace new ideas with energy!
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Live out of your imagination, not your history
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
I love having first-time experiences. When you're past the age of 20 or so, there are less and less first-time experiences.
I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.
My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
Each moment is a place you've never been.
Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.
The last people with any ideas are young people.
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.
I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it
Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules.
