Discover the Joy of Creative Thinking

"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
- Thomas Edison

"A survey was done to discover the creativity level of individuals at various ages. After all the testing, the statistics indicated that 2% of the men and women who where in their forties were highly creative. As they looked at younger people, the results emerged that 2% of the thirty-five-year-olds were highly creative; 2% of the thirty-year-olds were highly creative. This went on down to each age group until they reached the seven-year-old children. Ten percent of them were highly creative. However, further study showed that 90% of the five-year-olds were highly creative. Between the ages of five and seven, 80% of us who are highly creative develop an image, a picture, an attitude that we are not creative, and we begin to deny that particular part of our God-given equipment."
- Skipp Ross with Carole C. Carlson, Say Yes to Your Potential (Nashville: Word, 1983)

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
- Pablo Picasso

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

"Highly creative people are dedicated to ideas. They don't rely on their talent alone; they rely on their discipline. Their imagination is like a second skin. They know how to manipulate it to its fullest."
- Annette Moser-Wellman, The Five Faces of Genius: The Skills to Master Ideas at Work (New York: Viking, 2001), 9.

"Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all. The joy of not knowing it all refers to the realization that we seldom if ever have all the answers; we always have the ability to generate more solutions to just about any problem. Being creative is being able to see or imagine a great deal of opportunity to life's problems. Creativity is having options."
- Ernie J. Zelinski, The joy of Not Knowing it All: Profiting from Creativity at Work or Play (Chicago: VIP Books, 1994), 7.

"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions."
- Antony Jay

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
- Rita Mae Brown

"All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise, we would never have anything new."
- Charles Kettering