“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training”

“The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions" The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?”

Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer

“Rain has always been connected in my mind with kindness.”

Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist

“When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.”

Mark Twain book Is Shakespeare Dead?

“I have never been any good at training children or dogs; that is why I am no good at training myself.”

George F. Kennan (1904–2005) American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian

“Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.”

Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist

“Mindfulness is defined as nonjudgmental, investigative, kind, and responsive awareness. This sort of awareness takes intentional training of the mind.”

Noah Levine (1971) American Buddhist teacher

“Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

“Creative children do not paint. They mess around. If they have to draw, creative children always end up being the ridiculous kind of child, who produces childern′s drawings Creative children wipe spinach round their gobs, that′s all. Any thing more that these crappy daubnings is the result of education-and before long we′re on a level with Paul Klee.”

Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist

“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist