Edwin Land Quotes About Creativity

Quotes about: Creativity

• An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

  Edwin Land

  Inspiring, Courage, Failure

  "A Genius and His Magic Camera". Life Magazine, October 27, 1972.

• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Creative, Stupidity

• There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Individuality, Groups

  Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

• As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Science, Creative

• True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Succession, Dependent

• An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Cutting, Government

  "A Genius and His Magic Camera". LIFE magazine, October 27, 1972.

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