Modern authors and speakers about creativity

Modern authors  and motivational speekers about creativity

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
Alfred P. Sloan (May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966), American business executive and author

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970), American author in the area of the new thought movement

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon Hill

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action
Napoleon Hill

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill

It is always your next move.
Napoleon Hill

Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker (November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) Austrian-American author, management consultant

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
Peter F. Drucker

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
Peter F. Drucker

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
David M. Ogilvy (June 23, 1911 –July 21, 1999), British advertising executive, “The Father of Advertising”

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
David M. Ogilvy

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
David M. Ogilvy

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David M. Ogilvy

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
David M. Ogilvy

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
David M. Ogilvy

Creativity, it has been said, consists largely of re-arranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know.
George Keller (1928–2007), American scholar, professor of Higher-Education Studies

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted
George Keller

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born March 15, 1943), American author, professor, business and management consultant

After years of telling corporate citizens to ‘trust the system,’ many companies must relearn instead to trust their people – and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy…As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected…Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.
Julia Cameron (born March 4, 1948), American author, artist, poet, filmmaker and composer

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
Julia Cameron

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
Julia Cameron

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.
Julia Cameron

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
Julia Cameron

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called ‘the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
Julia Cameron

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.
Julia Cameron

Art is not thinking something up; it is the opposite – getting something down.
Julia Cameron

Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.
Julia Cameron

Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
Julia Cameron

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
Julia Cameron

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
Julia Cameron

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
Julia Cameron

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
Julia Cameron

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Julia Cameron

We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.
Julia Cameron

Basic Principles:

1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.
2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life — including ourselves.
3. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator’s creativity within us and our lives.
4. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.
5. Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
6. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.
7. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction.
8. As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
9. It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.
10. Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.
Julia Cameron

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
Sir Ken Robinson (born March 4, 1950), English author and advisor on education

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
Sir Ken Robinson

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
Sir Ken Robinson

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
Sir Ken Robinson

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
Sir Ken Robinson

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.
Sir Ken Robinson

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
Sir Ken Robinson

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
Sir Ken Robinson

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!
Joel Barker, American author and speaker

Today, the world belongs to category creators – those who can do what artists and designers have always done: create something that others never knew they needed but can’t live without.
Daniel Pink, American author, business and management consultant

The arts are no longer ornamental. They’re fundamental.
Daniel Pink

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams (born June 8, 1957), American author

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.
Richard Florida (born 1957), American author and urban studies theorist

The key to economic growth lies not just in the ability to attract the creative class, but to translate that underlying advantage into creative economic outcomes in the form of new ideas, new high-tech businesses and regional growth.
Richard Florida

This young man and his lifestyle proclivities represent a profound new force in the economy and life of America. He is a member of what I call the creative class: a fast-growing, highly educated, and well-paid segment of the workforce on whose efforts corporate profits and economic growth increasingly depend.
Richard Florida

Members of the creative class do a wide variety of work in a wide variety of industries—from technology to entertainment, journalism to finance, high-end manufacturing to the arts. They do not consciously think of themselves as a class. Yet they share a common ethos that values creativity, individuality, difference, and merit.
Richard Florida

The distinguishing characteristic of the creative class is that its members engage in work whose function is to “create meaningful new forms.” The super- creative core of this new class includes scientists and engineers, university professors, poets and novelists, artists, entertainers, actors, designers, and architects, as well as the “thought leadership” of modern society: nonfiction writers, editors, cultural figures, think-tank researchers, analysts, and other opinion-makers.
Richard Florida

People who do this kind of work may sometimes come up with methods or products that turn out to be widely useful, but it’s not part of the basic job description. What they are required to do regularly is think on their own. They apply or combine standard approaches in unique ways to fit the situation, exercise a great deal of judgment, perhaps try something radically new from time to time.
Richard Florida

These people contribute more than intelligence or computer skills. They add creative value. Everywhere we look, creativity is increasingly valued. Firms and organizations value it for the results that it can produce and individuals value it as a route to self-expression and job satisfaction. Bottom line: As creativity becomes more valued, the creative class grows.
Richard Florida

The creative class people I study use the word “diversity” a lot, but not to press any political hot buttons. Diversity is simply something they value in all its manifestations. This is spoken of so often, and so matter-of-factly, that I take it to be a fundamental marker of creative class values. Creative-minded people enjoy a mix of influences. They want to hear different kinds of music and try different kinds of food. They want to meet and socialize with people unlike themselves, trade views and spar over issues.
Richard Florida

More and more businesses understand that ethos and are making the adaptations necessary to attract and retain creative class employees—everything from relaxed dress codes, flexible schedules, and new work rules in the office to hiring recruiters who throw Frisbees.
Richard Florida

Cities are central to innovation and new technology. They act as giant petri dishes, where creative types and entrepreneurs rub up against each other, combining and recombining to spark new ideas, new inventions, new businesses and new industries.
Richard Florida

Creative centers also tend to be places with thick labor markets that can fulfill the employment needs of members of the creative class, who, by and large, are not looking just for “a job” but for places that offer many employment opportunities.
Richard Florida

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.
Richard Florida

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
Anthony Robbins (born February 29, 1960), American self-help author and motivational speaker