Creative Professional?

Scientific American Article … and Quotes for You

Creative professional?

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Are you still this girl?

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To all of my fellow “professional creatives” out there (engineers, teachers, pastors, lawyers, poets, doctors, scientists) … go big today!

Scientific American Article)

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---“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”—Edward de Bono

---“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” —Albert Einstein

---“Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso

---“Creativity is seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.” —Michele Shea

---“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” —George Lois

---“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.” —Steve Jobs

---“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

---“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.” — Bruce Garrabrandt

---“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.” — Maya Angelou

---“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein

---“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people” – Leo Burnett

---“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will” – George Bernard Shaw

---“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw

---“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach.Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity” – Charles Mingus

---“Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” — Edward de Bono

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@misc{anderson_2021_creative_professional,
  author = {Jed Anderson},
  title  = {Creative Professional?},
  year   = {2021},
  url    = {https://jedanderson.org/posts/creative-professional},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-05-13}
}

Anderson, J. (2021). Creative Professional?. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/posts/creative-professional

Anderson, Jed. "Creative Professional?." Jed Anderson, September 3, 2021, https://jedanderson.org/posts/creative-professional.