The Creativity Leap Quotes

“By openly stating and owning whatever is going wrong, employees exercise their capacity to adapt, learn, and grow.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Life’s ambiguity is not diminishing.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“The more diverse the inputs, the more innovative the output.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“You have to be thoughtful and intentional about how you frame a question in order to obtain the most insight from a person.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“If we don’t get good at framing new and different questions to understand why a competitor or someone younger than us, or someone from a completely different culture does thing a certain way, then we are working at a disadvantage.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“The messy, open-ended nature of inquiry is disorienting, and asking better questions obliges us to move away from an obsession with finding a single, clear solution toward falling in love with problems and the process.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Most of us don’t experience feedback and critical questions as a creative experience.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“I experienced a kind of liberation by learning how to frame questions.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“The lack of appetite for building inquiry begins with our education systems.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Wondrous questions lead to divergent thinking.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“It is often in the midst of rote labor that wonder emerges.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Rigor ensures that we actually complete the leap we started. It sustains the necessary momentum to create something tangible.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“If we romanticize creativity as a mystical, magical process only accessible to a select few, then we miss the point.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“In 1977, I was enraptured with the wonder of it all. By 2017, I could also appreciate the rigor of it all.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Working out a better-formed question and pushing through process require rigor.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“The only way we get to make a creativity leap in the first place is by starting with wonder.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Wonder likes to test out new ways of being and doing, rebounding off the constraints of current knowledge.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Pausing to wonder about something spurs new questions.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Exploration is cut short by the need for expediency.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“If we are to truly innovate and make creativity leaps, then we must start from a wondrous state, revving up our curiosity and desire to explore.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Wonder requires a space of doing nothing.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“What we begin to wonder brings us to the precipice of discovery. Therein lies the magic.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Daydreaming leads to wonder.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“What begins as a glance at a small object blurs into the depths of my mind until I pull myself art of my reverie to go back to the matter at hand.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Daydreams are like a magnetic pull for me.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“When you are trying to break out of the mold, you must be audacious to make that creativity leap into new territory.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Improvisation is your ability to be present in the now and to responsive with those around you.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Taking the leap to build an organization-wide creative capacity is the single best way to continually innovate.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“If all we are doing is setting aside new departments or spaces that we designate as the space in which to innovate, then it is as if we are saying there is a separate true and place to be productive. And that is just not so.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“People threw around the word innovation all the time; sometimes we end up talking around each other without getting to the real definition. What do we mean by innovation? Innovation is invention converted into financial, social, and cultural value. Furthermore, the engine for innovation is creativity. That means that we truly want to innovate, then we must design systems, processes, and experiences in our work environments that allow us to be creative and catalyze invention.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work