A Quote by Albert Einstein

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein
German - Physicist
March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

Albert Einstein

Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.

Laurence Fishburne

Along the way, let's never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We've forgotten what that childlike experience was like.

Guy Laliberte

I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.

Graeme Base

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

Iris Apfel

Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.

Jim Rohn

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

Al Hirschfeld

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

Richey Edwards

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

Wayne Dyer

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

John Cleese

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

Karel Appel

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

Beck

My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.

Paula Scher

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.

Tom Kenny

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.