91 Quotes by Jonah Lehrer

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.

Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

You know more than you know.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.