All About Us

<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;I&amp;#39;m Frank, the creator and webmaster for this website, and all the websites in the &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bemorecreative.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;BeMoreCreative.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; family. These websites have evolved from my personal interest in quotations and using them to encourage people to think, live and work more creatively.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>

<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;In 1986 I wanted to make a Christmas gift calendar for my wife using Print Shop and my Apple //GS computer. I decided to make a weekly calendar with a motherly/homey quotation at the top of each page. Browsing through a copy of &amp;quot;The Shorter Bartlett&amp;#39;s Familiar Quotations&amp;quot; I became intrigued with quotations about creativity.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>

<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;I soon amassed several thousand quotations, and began reading more about the creative process. I was intrigued by books like &amp;quot;A Whack on the Side of The Head: How to Unlock Your Mind for Innovation&amp;quot; by Roger Von Oech. However, it was in reading his sequel entitled &amp;quot;A Kick in the Seat of the Pants&amp;quot; that I made a creative connection that my collection of quotations could be used to illustrate components of the creativity process.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>

<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;After more research, including &amp;quot;Pathfinders&amp;quot; by Gail Sheehy, I adopted a creative process, called Creative Quotations, based on five steps/components -- Foraging, Reflecting, Adopting, Nurturing, and Knuckling Down. Those five terms, while admittedly a bit out of the ordinary, spell FRANK. This has become my way to personalize the creative process. In fact, I credit my ten years of survival s a project manager in Africa in part to my personalization of the creative process, and its application to project management.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>

<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Several years later, the Internet provided a way to share my quotation collection to a broader audience. via &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativequotations.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;CreativeQuotations.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; and &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bemorecreative.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;BeMoreCreative.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;. That also eventually led to the creation of this website where quotations on a selected topic are combined with links for purchasing products related to that topic. The &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativehardwarestore.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;CreativeHardwareStore.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;, for example, was inspired by the quotation that &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Anyone can look for history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot; --Robert Wieder.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>

<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;I invite you to browse this website while &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;thinking, working and living more creatively.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot; And please keep on the lookout for connections along the way that may inspire your personal creativity!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>

<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;-FRANK&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>