Sometimes you gotta create something just to get it out of your system. The end result may not be great, but it does bring you closer to greatness.
Some people fancy themselves as being “creative”, or ”creative-types” because they have a lot of ideas. Cool. You have ideas. So does my 3 year old. That doesn’t make you creative. An idea without implementation isn’t creation. It’s imagination. By definition, being creative requires that you create something.
— Steven Furtick via Blankenship
Creativity doesn’t always happen on a predetermined schedule.
— Dan Benjamin from Offices and The Creativity Zone.
Real creativity, the kind that is responsible for breakthrough changes in our society, always violates the rules. That is why it is so unmanageable and that is why, in most organizations, when we say we desire creativity we really mean manageable creativity. We don’t mean raw, dramatic, radical creativity that requires us to change.
— Richard Farson, from his book Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership


