Quantum Creativity Quotes

“For most of us, creative motivation requires a crisis—either externally, like a threat to our physical survival, or an internal crisis of intense suffering.”
― Amit Goswami, Quantum Creativity: Think Quantum, Be Creative

“F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposite ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
― Amit Goswami, Quantum Creativity: Think Quantum, Be Creative

“When Van Gogh painted The Starry Night as a swirling mass of cosmic energy, he may have been painting what he saw with neurotic eyes, but he was also painting what he saw with transcendent eyes. The first gave his painting mere form, the second gave it formless, universal emotion that connects directly to the viewer.”
― Amit Goswami, Quantum Creativity: Waking Up to Our Creative Potential

“Somewhere along the line I also recognized that spiritual growth is “inner” creativity, as contrasted to creativity in the arts and the sciences, which is “outer” creativity.”
― Amit Goswami, Quantum Creativity: Think Quantum, Be Creative

“A map is not the territory and is not as interesting as the territory.”
― Amit Goswami, Quantum Creativity: Waking Up to Our Creative Potential

“You will write … if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting.”
― Amit Goswami, Quantum Creativity: Think Quantum, Be Creative

“A new premise composed of the idea that consciousness—not matter—is the true foundation of being would give rise to a reinvigorated science capable of moving beyond its previous limitations into exciting new territory.”
― Amit Goswami, Quantum Creativity: Think Quantum, Be Creative