19 Quotes by Teresa Amabile

To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate – useful and actionable.

To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate – useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.

People can certainly be creative when they’re under the gun, but only when they’re able to focus on the work.

The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.

Most people aren’t anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they’re laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.

If management generally overrides people’s decisions, they quickly lose motivation to make any decision, which severely inhibits progress.

True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.

Because they spend so much of their lives working, people deserve the dignity of having positive lives at work.