Jonah Lehrer Quotes

Jonah Lehrer — American Author born on June 25, 1981,

Jonah Richard Lehrer is an American author, journalist, blogger, and speaker who writes on the topics of psychology, neuroscience, and the relationship between science and the humanities. He has published three books, two of which, Imagine and How We Decide, were withdrawn from the market by publishers after it was discovered that Lehrer had fabricated quotations. This led to his resignation from his staff position at The New Yorker following disclosures that he had recycled his own work for the magazine. A later investigation at Wired.com, where he had previously worked, found instances of recycled content and plagiarism... (wikipedia)

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Jonah Lehrer Quotes

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