Quotes, images and concepts about making psychotherapy and counseling services more creative, flexible and client-focused.

1. Innovation and Challenge in
Contemporary Psychotherapy
with Kate McNulty

2. Myths about Creativity: Eccentricity
• Creative types are different from the rest of us
• Being creative involves talent
• People who are “creative” are weirdos

3. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
-Frank Zappa

4. Impulsivity
• Working under pressure produces creative
ideas
• Creative people have hot tempers
• Creativity means messiness and chaos

5. The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
-Picasso

6. Romantic Primitivism
• Being spontaneous will stir creative ideas
• Absent minded professor-types
• Children are more creative than adults

7. At the age of four, you were an artist.
And at seven, you were a poet.
-Seth Godin

8. Paying a Price
• Artists are tortured souls
• The act of creating is a struggle
• Creativity involves suffering

10. Visits from the Muse
• Nobody knows where ideas come from
• Inspiration is whimsical
• Creative ideas can’t be forced

11. Thinking doesn’t seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-
powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
- Kurt Vonnegut

12. How Creativity Works
The best way to get a good idea
is to get lots of ideas.
- Linus Pauling

13. Borrowing
All ideas are second hand, consciously or
unconsciously drawn from a million outside
sources and used by the creative person with
pride and satisfaction.
-Mark Twain

14. The Unexpected
Discovery consists of seeing what
everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody has thought.
-Albert von Szent-Gyorgi

16. Abundance
You can’t use up creativity. The
more you use, the more you
have.
-Maya Angelou

18. Entertaining Oneself
People will kill you. Over time.
They will shave out every last morsel of
fun in you with little harmless-sounding
phrases that people use every day, like
“Be realistic.”
-Dylan Moran

20. Risk
You have to do stuff that average
people don't understand,
because those are the only good
things.
-Andy Warhol

22. Generativity
There is a fountain of youth: it is
your mind, your talents, the
creativity you bring to your life and
the lives of people you love.
When you learn to tap this source,
you will truly have defeated age.
-Sophia Loren

24. Deep Satisfaction
I am convinced that creativity is a
priori to the integrity of the
universe; that life is regenerative
and conformity meaningless.
-Buckminster Fuller

26. Combining
There are no new ideas. There are
only new ways of making them
felt.
-Audre Lorde

28. Movement & Hands

29. Collecting

30. Diagrams

31. Mapping

32. Human salvation lies in the hands of the
creatively maladjusted.
-Martin Luther King Jr.