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We are all born geniuses, well, at least more genius-like than we are
today. But something tends to get in the way, telling us that we are not
and should not be so creative. That potential does not go away, but it can
be buried deep. If we can dig it out and dust it down, we can all
recapture significant creative capability.
See also
attitude, beginners*, children*, courage, education, exploration,
individuality, mind, talent*, thinking
Quotes
‘Most people live...in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of
their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily
organism, should get into the habit of using only his little finger.’
— William James
‘Compared with what we ought to be, we are but half-awake.’
— William James
‘It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without
preconceived notions.’
— Charles F. Kettering
‘There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how
enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.’
— Søren Kierkegaard
‘It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal
toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors
self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health,
individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this
amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming
fully human, everything that person can be.’
— Abraham Maslow
‘The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we
discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man’s tendency to
actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and
human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to
express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self.’
— Carl Rogers
‘The true function of logic...as
applied to matters of experience,...is analytic rather than constructive; taken
a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more
often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible.
Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what
the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is.’
— Bertrand Russell
‘To be where we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the
only end in life.’
— Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to
achieve.’
— Jules Verne
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