This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Apela Colorado, aka Pamela Colorado
The end point of an indigenous scientific process is a known and recognized place. This point of balance, referred to by my own tribe (Oneida) as the Great Peace, is both peaceful and electrifyingly alive. In the joy of exact balance, creativity occurs, which is why we can think of our way of knowing as a life science.
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
Creativity | Enemy | Good |
Paul Tillich, fully Paul Johannes Tillich
In the creative vision of God the individual is present as a whole in his essential being and inner teleos and at the same time in the infinity of the special moments of his life process. Of course this is said symbolically, since we are unable to have a perception of or even an imagination of that which belongs to the divine life. The mystery of being beyond essence and existence is hidden in the mystery of the creativity of the divine life.
Creativity | Existence | God | Imagination | Individual | Life | Life | Mystery | Perception | Present | Time | Vision | God |
In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much."
Pitirim A. Sorokin, fully Pitirim Alexandrovich (Alexander) Sorokin
Real creativity will die out. Instead, we shall get a multitude of mediocre pseudo-thinkers and vulgar groups and organizations. Our belief systems will turn into a strange chaotic stew of science, philosophy, and magical beliefs. “Quantitative colossalism will substitute for qualitative refinement.” What is biggest will be regarded as best. Instead of classics, we shall have best-sellers. Instead of genius, technique. Instead of real thought, Information. Instead of inner value, glittering externality. Instead of sages, smart alecs. The great cultural values of the past will be degraded; “Michelangelos and Rembrandts will be decorating soap and razor blades, washing machines and whiskey bottles.”
Belief | Creativity | Machines | Past | Will |
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
Conformity | Creativity | Integrity | Life | Life | Universe |
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Creativity | Knowing |
They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess.
Creativity | Rest |
Roger Schutz, aka Frère Roger, Brother Roger of Taize, baptised Roger Louis Schütz-Marsauche
I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don't get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it. Our own limitations put up strong resistance, but it's because of that that we are creators.
Creativity | Experience |
Leaders have the courage to face inevitable conflict openly and head on. Whenever strong willed people interact on a frequent basis, there will be occasional disagreements and conflict. The effective leader recognizes this as a fact of life and does not shy away from conflict because of the tension and stress involved.
Adaptability | Authority | Capacity | Creativity |
The absence of authority enables one to deviate from the norms of authoritative decision-making.
Challenge | Conversation | Creativity | Ideas | People |
Rupert Sheldrake, fully Alfred Rupert Sheldrake
I’m talking about science on the leading edge, where it’s not clear which way things are going be cause we don’t know, and I’m dealing with areas which we don’t know about.
Art | Creativity | Mystery | Art |
Rupert Sheldrake, fully Alfred Rupert Sheldrake
The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality...
Creativity | Earth | History |
Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
Music represented symbolically is regarded as more acceptable than music which happens in real time as sound. We have fallen under the sway of a strange inversion in which symbols are regarded as more real than the realities they represent. Music (or art, literature, science, technology) is often treated as a collection of works arranged in a historical timeline. The scores are regarded as having not only an independent existence, but a higher existence than a performance.
Creativity | Giving | Inevitable | Perseverance | Play | Struggle | Worth |
Ideally, schools exist to preserve and regenerate learning and the arts, to give children the tools with which they may create the future. At worst, they produce uniform, media-minded grown-ups to feed the marketplace with workers, with managers, and with consumers. The child we were and are learns by exploring and experimenting, insistently snooping into every little corner that is open to us—and into the forbidden corners too! But sooner or later our wings get clipped. The real world created by grown-ups comes to bear down upon growing children, molding them into progressively more predictable...
Creativity | Work | Learn |
From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored, limited in resources, and reduced in mystery.
Beauty | Creativity | Mind | Beauty |
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.
Creativity | Decision | Genius | Power | Qualities |
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them.
Ability | Arrogance | Behavior | Capacity | Change | Creativity | Danger | Doubt | Effort | Error | Good | Greed | Humility | Life | Life | Pride | Reverence | Sense | Will | World | Danger | Learn | Understand |