creativity
Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.
Invent and Wander Quotes by Jeff Bezos
I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. B... See more
fs.blog • How to Think: The Skill You've Never Been Taught - Farnam Street
Posting can be fun, entertaining, and even enlightening. But when we want to share a creative act we went deep into the void to create, we owe our work more than a post. We owe it a RELEASE.
A RELEASE is a richer and deeper expression of an idea. A release is not just the work, it’s anticipating the work. There’s an invitation to become part of it i... See more
A RELEASE is a richer and deeper expression of an idea. A release is not just the work, it’s anticipating the work. There’s an invitation to become part of it i... See more
Yancey Strickler • Do you post or do you RELEASE?
Apple Think Different - Steve Jobs Narrated Version
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Everything we’ve been taught to value, beauty, productivity, worth, was imagined by someone else.
So the question is, whose imagination are we living in?
You have the right to reclaim your own.
To dismantle what no longer fits and dream in ways that free you.
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instagram.comWork backwards from the emotion you're trying to create in the reader. Then let the structure follow.
“I don't say no because I'm so busy.
I say no because I don't want to be busy.”
Courtney Carver
I'd come to think our brains needed help transforming from trash compactors into microscopes, and that's where art comes in: a way to fight our instincts to truncate and elide, and, in so doing, to notice more, appreciate more, empathize more. Which is all to say, to experience more. If our lives are the set of experiences that we collect, then art
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“Do you think human creativity matters? Well, most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right? They have a life to live and they’re really not that concerned with Allen Ginsberg’s poems or anyone’s poems—until, their father dies; they go to a funeral; you lose a child; someone breaks your heart.
And all of a sudden you’re desperat
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