Ten Quotes from “Guidelines to Creativity” by K. Bradford Brown

Add comment December 15th, 2006

I got Guidelines to Creativity by K. Bradford Brown as a gift and was impressed by these ten quotes. Some are clever re-statements of more famous observations but all have a certain poetry.

1. Creativity will take me as far as my imagined limits.
2. The building blocks of our creativity are quarried from the space between what is, and what might be.
3. Some discoveries change the world. All discoveries change their discoverer.
4. An attempt may be a failure. A person never is.
5. To create, we must learn to stand on other people’s shoulders humbly.
6. Whenever a group shares a common vision, a spark of creativity is ignited.
7. When surfacing from the depths of creative effort, take the time to decompress.
8. Age does not limit creativity. But having experience helps. As does not having it. Anyway, it’s not our choice.
9. They said, “try, try again.” I said, “let’s stop and try something different.”
10. It starts in the imagination. It ends in sweat.