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New ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.
From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)

The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

There is a presence in what is missing. That presence is our own.

Love is just another name for what never gets old.

The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

The world is more random than we can imagine. That's what our emotions can't understand.

Harlow would later write, If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

You know more than you know.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

...Prions violate most of biology's sacred rules. They are one of those annoying reminders of how much we don't know.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

If our DNA has a literary equivalent, it's Finnegan's Wake.

There simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.

Trusting one's emotions requires constant vigilance; intelligent intuition is the result of deliberate practice.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

Money chases good ideas

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

To have a style is to be stuck.

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.