Creating Creativity: 101 Definitions (What Webster Never Told You) - Softcover

Aleinikov, Andrei G.; Kackmeister, Sharon; Koenig, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970311001 ISBN 13: 9780970311009

Publisher: Alden B Dow Creativity Center Pr, 2000

Synopsis

What do Dr. Sid Parnes, Dr. E. Paul Torrence, Alden B. Dow, Corky Siegel, Ray Kamalay, Alex Graham, Kurt Thoma, and many children from the Creative Spirit Center, Inc. in Midland, Michigan and the Mega-Innovative Mind International Institute, Inc., in Montgomery, Alabama have in common? Their definitions of creativity are all included in Creating Creativity: 101 Definitions (What Webster Never Told You). In this little book of big ideas four generations of individuals each offer a unique facet or wrinkle to the concept of creativity. Scattered throughout its 128 full-color pages, works of art add highlight and charm to the ideas that fill this book. Contributors include children as young as 2 through adults well into their 80's. Creating Creativity is a thought-provoking, powerful text useful and worthwhile to both the researcher and the casual reader. Enjoy this first publication of the Alden B. Dow Creativity Center Press!

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About the Author

Andrei G. Aleinikov, President, Mega-Innovative Mind International Institute, Montgomery, Alabama.

Sharon Kackmeister, Executive Director, Creative Spirit Center, Inc., Midland, Michigan.

Ron Koenig, Executive Director, Alden B. Dow Creativity Center, Northwood University, Midland, Michigan.

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"Creativity is not far from freedom. To be Creative is to know who we are . . ." -- Garth Aldrich

"Creativity is Jazz without the music." -- Jack Allday

"Creativity is a continuous process of finding good problems to solve." -- Min Bassadur

"Creativity is a flow of energy . . ." -- Ed Beckstrom, Ph.D.

"Creativity is the result of anyone striving to generate new ideas." -- Robert Alan Black, Ph.D.

"Creativity is a powerful life force that can infuse our lives with fresh meaning and innovative ideas." -- John Chaffee, Ph.D.

"Creativity is seeing a tree and imagining a forest" -- Steve Cooper

"Creativity is the value laying around us; to create is ultimately to find." -- Walter DiMantova

"Being creative is being courageous" -- Roger Firestein, Ph.D.

"To creatre is to emboss one's essential being on the world at large." -- Jon Fischer

"Creativity is our innate potential to come to new uncommon possibilities or combinations." -- Charles Girsch

"Creativity is the space betweeen my vision and my self doubt." -- Alex Graham

"Want to know what the real definition of creativity is, ask a child." -- Al Wilson

"Even the most mundane things can be transformed into a kaleidoscope by looking at them in a new and different way." -- Cheryl Smith

"Creativity is the process of mining a mind." -- John Sedgwick

"Creativity is when the synaptic spark meets the light of day." -- Jessika Satori, Ed. D.

"Creativity is a patchwork quilt of perceptions, attitudes and attributes." -- Gail Ryder

"Creativity is: our inheritance from the past, our challenge for the present, and our legacy for the future." -- Bill Riffe, Ph.D.

"Creativity...the frebricity of the soul becoming reality." -- Eleanor Pierre

"Creativity is the art of self-expression . . ." -- Jennifer Leigh Page

"Creativity is the river that runs through our human spirit." -- John Osborn

Edition details

• Publisher: Alden B Dow Creativity Center Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970311001
• ISBN 13: 9780970311009
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128