The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change. Otherwise, what are you creating for? If the world is perfectly all right the way it is, you have no place in it. The creative personality thinks of the world as a canvas for change and of himself as a divine agent of change. Jacob Bronowski
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The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change. Otherwise, what are you creating for? The creative personality thinks of the world as a canvas for change and of himself as a divine agent of change.

Source: The Origins Of Knowledge And Imagination

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