John W. Gardner Quotes About Creativity

Quotes about: Creativity

• Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

  John W. Gardner

  Freedom, Creativity, Practice

• Americans have always believed that-within the law-all kinds of people should be allowed to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. And out of that pluralism has come virtually all of our creativity. Freedom is real only to the extent that there are diverse alternatives.

  John W. Gardner

  Real, Creativity, Science

• Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.

  John W. Gardner

  Art, Creativity, Practice

• The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Responsibility, Community

• The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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