Rod Judkins > Quotes

“Creativity isn't a switch that's flicked on or off; it's a way of seeing, engaging and responding to the world around you.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking

“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.”
― Rod Judkins, Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self

“The creative mind seeks chance and accident while everyone else seeks control and order. Rod Judkins ‘Change Your Mind”
― Rod Judkins, Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self

“At school, creativity was suppressed and crushed. It was something that teachers and authorities actually feared. They regarded it as dangerous, something they couldn’t control. They steered students away from it in the same way they steered them away from drugs, burglary or gambling. At art college I found the opposite. The spirit was one in which mistakes were good. Where you could try and fail. There was no emphasis on getting it ‘right’. All around me were people experimenting for the sheer hell of it, doing things that made no sense – or rather doing things because they made no sense.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking: 100 Lessons to Transform Your Mind

“Do what you like because then you will like what you do. Rod Judkins”
― Rod Judkins

“Be your own work of art. Don’t find yourself; invent yourself. ‘Change Your Mind”
― Rod Judkins, Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self

“Those who have fresh, new ideas are always learning.”
― Rod Judkins

“Doubt is a key to unlocking new ideas. Einstein doubted Newton. Picasso doubted Michelangelo. Beethoven doubted Mozart. That’s why they moved things forward.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking

“It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we discover new ideas. Doubt everyone and everything all the time – especially yourself.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking

“The artist doesn't hide behind a role – not even the role of the artist.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“To flourish in any field of activity you need to gain a deep understanding of it.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking

“We all come under pressure from our employers, family or friends to compromise, but to make something unique, to do something extraordinary, often requires that you refuse to compromise your ideals. You have no responsibility to live up to others' expectations, but you do have a responsibility to live up to your own expectations.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking

“To be true to an idea, you have to value expression over perfection, vitality over finish, movement over the static, and form over function. Put your personality before practicality and your individuality into everything. Ironing out impracticalities irons out what is unique.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking

“Everyone needs to analyse and understand what makes them tick, like taking a clock apart to discover how it works. Self-knowledge will help you to understand what you have to offer that’s special.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking

“Everything around you is constantly changing. Nothing is fixed. Nothing is forever. Successful creative people don't work against this knowledge but work with it.”
― Rod Judkins, Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self

“Certainty is a convenient and easy way out of our discomfort. It is the mind's equivalent of fast food - to satisfy our hunger for answers with minimal effort.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking

“To be a successful person you often have to create a strong foundation with the bricks others throw at you.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking

“There is more uncertainty in our lives than ever; technology has speeded up change, relationships are more complicated, and we are bombarded with contradictory information by the media. That's a good thing - uncertainty is better than certainty. Uncertainty is the creative person's friend.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“I can't tell you how many times I wrote something thinking it expressed one idea, only to find people saw something else in it.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“If you are made to feel bad about being highly sensitive, remind yourself it's insensitive people who are the problem.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“The artist doesn't have to concern themselves with posterity because, ultimately, the audience will decide. Our only option is to do the best we can here and now.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“An artist is not a passive consumer of the world but an active creator of the world. So be careful what you create – you're going to live there.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“Power comes not from knowledge kept,’ said Gates, ‘but from knowledge shared.’ But don’t sit around waiting for your boss – if your company isn’t doing this already, don’t wait, start it up for them. Sharing your knowledge creates synergy: you’ll get more out than you put in. ‘If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.’ Margaret Fuller   Feeling competitive rather than collaborative?  Meet some of history’s great creative rivals here.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking: 100 Lessons to Transform Your Mind

“If "The eyes are the window of the soul," the heart is the door to the soul. Head for the heart, not the head.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“A novel is a lie. Adverts, operas, films, TV - all lies. But the artist's intentions are the most worthwhile possible - to reveal truths.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“Improvizacija je previše važna da biste je prepustili slučaju.”
― Rod Judkins

“It can be challenging, but it’s cathartic to say what you want out loud. Your desires define you. Suppress them, and you’re not you.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“If you feel like a misunderstood genius, you're not a genius. A genius knows an idea that isn't communicated is like a car never leaving the factory. It's useless. You want your concept on the road, being driven around, being seen - used.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“As I see it then, the formula runs something like this; a man must choose a path that will let his abilities function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his desires.”
― Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking

“Artists and scientists enjoy the state of not knowing more than knowing. Once a truth is established, they immediately search for something uncertain.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths