This document discusses curiosity and its role in creativity and innovation. It contains quotes from thinkers and innovators like Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull of Pixar emphasizing the importance of curiosity, taking risks, embracing failure and bringing together old ideas in new ways. The document encourages cultivating curiosity in children and others through exploration, questioning, challenging assumptions and letting ideas fail in a safe environment.
1. CURIOSITYCat Killer or Breeder of Invention?
BRIAN HOUSAND
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2.
3. Around here we don’t look
backwards for very long…
We keep moving forward,
opening up new doors and doing
new things because we’re
curious, and curiosity keeps
leading us down new paths.
33. The real voyage of
consists not in seeking new landscapes,but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
consists not in seeking new landscapes,but in having new eyes.
38. Creativity is just
connecting things.
When you ask creative people
how they did something, they feel
a little guilty because they didn’t
really do it, they just saw
something. It seemed obvious to
them after a while.
That’s because they were able to
connect experiences they’ve had
and
SYNTHESIZE
new things.
- Steve Jobs, 1995
39. An idea is nothing
more or less than
a new combination
of old elements.
new combination
old elements
James Webb Young, 1940
A Technique for Producing Ideas
40. The capacity to bring
old elements into
new combinations
depends largely on the
ability to see
relationships.
new combination
old elements
James Webb Young, 1940
A Technique for Producing Ideas
85. Get great creative people.
Bet big on them.
Give them enormous leeway and support.
Provide them with an environment in
which they can get honest
feedback from everyone.
PIXAR’S
PHILOSOPHY
86. candorn. the state or quality of being
frank, open, and sincere in
speech or expression
90. “The attempt to avoid failure
makes failure more likely.
Trying to avoid
failure by
out-thinking it
dooms you
to fail.”
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Sadness
- Ed Catmull
94. I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask
a fairy godmother
to endow it with the
most useful gift,
that gift should be
curiosity.
-Eleanor Roosevelt