Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

don’t ask yourself who is right. Ask which idea is better.

The trouble is that most people want to be right. The very best people, however, want to know if they’re right.

Now you’re in a logical, critical period. After a time there, however, when you’ve assessed everything, you will get a bit bored. That’s a sign that now is the moment to go back into your creative thinking mode again. And so you go backwards and forwards between the creative mode of thinking and the analytical mode of thinking until, finally, you g

Where were you bored? Where could you not understand what was going on? Where did you not find things credible? Was there anything that you found emotionally confusing?

much of our ‘Tortoise Mind’ work takes place in an atmosphere of uncertainty and gentle confusion.

Writing is easy. Writing well is difficult.

That’s the great thing about working in comedy. If the audience doesn’t laugh, you know you’ve got it wrong.

the language of the unconscious is not verbal. It’s like the language of dreams.

Your thoughts follow your mood