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 Quotes about CREATIVITY and INNOVATION3
“I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.” — Erich Fromm
“I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.” — Duke Ellington
“Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worth less. The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits , to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.” — Frank Goble
“Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.” — Sir Joshua Reynolds
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.” — Thomas Huxley
“There is no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Lewis Carroll
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” — Albert Einstein
“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.” — Jean Piaget
“The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn’t need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.” — Abe Tannenbaum
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.” — Edward de Bono
“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.” — Erich Fromm
“Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach – how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.” — Osho
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.” — Emile Chartier
“Every day is an opportunity to be creative – the canvas is your mind, the brushes and colours are your thoughts and feelings, the panorama is your story, the complete picture is a work of art called, ‘my life’. Be careful what you put on the canvas of your mind today – it matters.” — Innerspace
“It seems to be one of the paradoxes of creativity that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others.” — George Kneller
“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.” — Henry David Thoreau
“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” — Osho
“We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other’s people’s models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.” — Shakti Gawain
“When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.” — Lewis Carroll
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” — Goethe
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” — John Cage
“What is an artist? A provincial who finds hims elf somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one—which is really the realm of the artist.” — Federico Fellini
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” — Joseph Chilton Pierce
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” — Nikos Kazantzakis
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” — Bertrand Russell
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” — John Maynard Keynes
“Life is trying things to see if they work.” — Ray Bradbury
“The stone age didn’t end because they ran out of stones.” — Unknown
“Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.” — Alan Cohen
“A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.” — Gerald G. Jampolsky
“Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.” — Thomas Troward
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” — George Lois
“A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.” — Charles Caleb Colton
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” — Albert Einstein
“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.” — Michael Porter
“Innovation comes from saying NO to 1,000 things.” — Steve Jobs
“Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.” — Tom Freston
“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” — Charles F. Kettering
“The things we fear most in organizations—fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances—are the primary sources of creativity.” — Margaret Wheatley
INTERVIEWER: You and Larry David wrote Seinfeld together, without a traditional writers’ room, and burnout was one reason you stopped. Was there a more sustainable way to do it? Could McKinsey or someone have helped you find a better model? SEINFELD: Who’s McKinsey? INTERVIEWER: It’s a consulting firm. SEINFELD: Are they funny? INTERVIEWER: No. SEINFELD: Then I don’t need them. If you’re efficient, you’re doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way. The show was successful because I micromanaged it—every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That’s my way of life. — A Seat at the Table
“An expert is a person who has found out by painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.” — Niels Bohr
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” — Albert Einstein
 
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