In all cultures, men are brought up to be “masculine” and to disregard and repress those aspects of their temperament that the culture regards as “feminine,” whereas women are expected to do the opposite. Creative individuals to a certain extent escape this rigid gender role stereotyping. When tests of masculinity/femininity are given to young people, […]
Creative - Creativity Quotes
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives… most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity… (and) when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Creative individuals are also remarkably humble and proud at the same time. It is remarkable to meet a famous person whom you expect to be arrogant or supercilious, only to encounter self-deprecation and shyness instead. Yet there are good reasons why this should be so. In the first place, these individuals are well aware that […]
Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors. (“Dilbert”)
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.
In fact, companies are borrowing more techniques from cults every day. For example, cults try to separate you from the rest of society. Companies make you work so many hours that you never see the rest of society. Cults tell you to wear dorky outfits. Companies tell you to wear dorky outfits too, except on […]
We’re a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. (“Dilbert”)
I see the mind of a five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
