Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Creativity is choice-making.

In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out. Choose wisely. And have fun.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

Life can be improved by adding, or by subtracting. The world pushes us to add, because that benefits them. But the secret is to focus on subtracting.

Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

Criatividade não é apenas o que escolhemos usar, são as coisas que escolhemos deixar de fora.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Creativity is the tangible manifestation of an indulgent excursion through a higher state of transcendental consciousness.

But I think that so many of the rest of us do what we can to avoid this math because if we do the subtraction, do the addition, our own personal sum will be unbearable sorrow, terror, and a feeling of being entirely out of control. I think many of us do what we can to avoid this math because we know that if we do the subtraction, do the addition, our psyches and our consciences and our lives will forever be changed; and we know that no matter how fierce the momentum that leads to this subtraction and addition, no matter our fears that we may be crushed (or perhaps more fearsome, ridiculed), that we will be led in some way to oppose the subtraction of life and the addition of toxics to this planet that is our only home.

The results are clear: mental subtraction is one of the most effective science-based techniques for boosting gratitude and happiness.