March: Creativity

2023

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) USA

2022

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.

Dr. Seuss (1957 – 1991) USA

2021

The creative adult is the child who survived.

Ursula Le Guin (1929 2018) USA

2020

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. 

Joseph Chilton Pierce (1926 – 2016) USA

2019

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Germany

2018

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift. 

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Germany

2017

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there. 

Monica Baldwin (1893 – 1975) United Kingdom

2016

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. 

Erich Fromm (1900 – 1980) Germany

2015

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

Charles Mingus (1922 – 1979) USA

2014

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. 

Stephen Covey (1932 – 2012) USA

2013

Everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don’t think everybody is disciplined. 

Al Hirschfeld (1903-203) USA

2012

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. 

George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Ireland

2011

The true value of words does not rest in what they disclose but in what they liberate. 

Giorgio Angelo Livraga (1930 – 1991) Italy