I really do believe I was put on the planet to help people have creative confidence. I don't have 27 agendas. I'm not the sustainability guy, or the developing-world guy. My contribution is to teach as many people as I can to use both sides of their brain, so that for every problem, every decision in their lives, they consider creative as well as analytical solutions. --David Kelley, founder of IDEO (in The Gift of Creative Confidence)

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't. --Brene Brown (in Six Ways to Help Kids Grow Their Creativity)

With unflinching steadiness march on your path, believing that the infinite creative power is behind you. --Yogananda (in Pushing One's Limits)

All thinking must renounce the attempt to explain the universe. We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive-- it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this. --Albert Schweitzer (in We Cannot Understand)

Every person must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others? --Martin Luther King Jr. (in Ten Thousand Dollar Bills)

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. --Dorothy Thompson (in A Mother's Stand)

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself. --Alan Alda (in Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind)

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict. --Dorothy Thompson (in Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job)

I do know that craft, if you pursue craft, will return you again and again to this creative state. To pursue the craft means to endeavor to bring together the intention of the mind to the hand, and an invitation to feeling -- an invitation to a new kind of feeling. --Nicholas Hlobeczy (in Old Master, Young Genius)

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. --John W. Gardener (in The Salesman Who Sang Opera)

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created. --Brenda Ueland (in A New Way of Listening)

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in You Gotta Have Art)

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. --Lawrence G. Lovasik (in Does Counting Your Blessings Really Help?)

Happiness is a continuous creative activity. --Baba Amte (in What Makes Us Happy?)

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. --Albert Einstein (in Black Is The New White)

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in Does Art Heal?)

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. --Joseph Chilton Pierce (in How Innovation Happens)

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. --George Lois (in Habits May Be Good for You)

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. --Stephen Nachmanovitch (in How the Ancient World Used Color)

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something." --Steve Jobs (in Why Creative Thinking is Inclusive Thinking)

Messes are opportunities for creative expression, for delight and discovery, and for pleasure and celebration. Messes are real. They are how we live. And they can be beautiful. --Amy George Rush (in Lessons from Messes)

A creative mind sees every pile of "junk" as a jigsaw puzzle. --Steve Supple (in Making Good: The Art of Repair)

You are a deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was. --Anthon St. Maarten (in Seth Godin: On the Art of Noticing & Creating)

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. --Karl Augustus Menninger (in We Are Connected In Mysterious Ways)

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in An Artist's Healing Project In Rwanda)

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. --GK Chesterton (in Eating Outside the Box)

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. --Leo Burnett (in How To Retrain Your Brain With Three Words)

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. --Alan Alda (in 14 Surprising Ways To Boost Your Creativity)

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. --Steve Jobs (in The Biggest Reason We Steal Other People's Ideas)

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. --Albert Einstein (in Parker Palmer on the Heart of a Teacher)

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. --Joseph Chilton Pearce (in Physicist David Bohm on Creativity)

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in Thu Nguyen: The Creative Act of Healing)

So many of the most important creative ideas happen collaboratively. --Steven Johnson (in The Power of Dabbling: How Hobbies Make Us More Creative)

We have to drop our creative, competitive hostilities and form the kind of cooperative that the whole Earth is already. Humans have to create our cooperative within Nature. --Elisabet Sahtouris (in Elisabet Sahtouris on Ecosophy)

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. --Joseph Chilton Pearce (in Business Lessons from the World of Improv)

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change. --Barbara Januszkiewicz (in In the Business of Change)

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in When Crafts Become Activism)

The creative process is a process of surrender not control. --Julia Cameron (in The Artist's Way for Parents)

We -- young and old together -- hold the future in our hands. If our common life is to become more compassionate, creative, and just, it will take an intergenerational effort. --Parker Palmer (in Courage & Vulnerability: Corona & the Wisdom of Elders)

Look back along the endless corridors of time and you will see that four things have built civilization: the spirit of religion, the spirit of creative art, the spirit of research and the spirit of business enterprise. --Neil Carothers (in Phil Chan on Art, Civilization & Empathy)

Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth. --Lewis Mumford (in From Emergency to Emergence)

Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. --Carl Jung (in Hidden Stories: Paintings by Diane Ding)

Forgiveness is not about condoning or forgetting, it's a creative exploration and analysis of the circumstances that brought you to that place. It's a metamorphosis of the given idea about the experience, so that it serves us, as opposed to working against us. --Aqeela Sherrill (in The Reverence Movement)

We are conscious of this desire to give back when it comes to people who are givers. Places are givers, too. And we can give back to them. When we do, we become more courageous, more creative--and certainly more grateful! --Trebbe Johnson (in Radical Joy For Hard Times)

Hope is holding a creative tension between what is and what could and should be, each day doing something to narrow the distance between the two. --Parker Palmer (in First Passage)

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become. --John O'Donohue (in A Common Humanity: A Conversation with Bob Sadler)

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. --Dorothy Thompson (in A Palestinian Woman Building Peace From the Bottom Up)

The moral imagination believes and acts on the basis that the unexpected is possible. It operates with the view that the creative act is always within human potential, but creativity requires moving beyond the parameters of what is visible, what already exists, or what is taken as given. --John Paul Lederach (in Practicing Rehumanization as We Move Into Uncertainty)

Longing is momentum in disguise: It's active, not passive; touched with the creative, the tender, and the divine. --Susan Cain (in The Power of the Bittersweet)

Sanitizing your thoughts and your preoccupations not only squanders vital energy that would be better spent in your creative endeavors, but your not-so-presentable life can be enormously enriching and provide the compost for the development of compassion. --Darlene Cohen (in The Skills Necessary to Deal with Anguish)