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Creativity/Innovation Quotes

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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

– Ray Bradbury

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but does not know what to create. Lord of all things, he is not lord of himself.

– Jose Ortega Y Gasset

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

– Eric Hoffer

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

– Eric Hoffer

We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than controlled, confining, and normative. In short, we must UNSHACKLE THE HUMAN BRAIN and exploit its productive potential.

– Karl Albrecht

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

– Thomas Edison

To achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

– Tom Robbins

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who say something can’t be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it.

Those of us who keep our eyes open can read volumes into what we see going on around us.

The Wright brothers first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn’t be done.

– Edward R. Murrow

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

– Marcel Proust

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

– Linus Pauling

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

– Anthony Jay

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

– Arthur C. Clarke

The only way you can live a truly creative life or know the highest happiness is by developing your own unique potential.

– Norman Vincent Peale

The Model “T” – Why “T”? Because Ford had gone through A-S before being successful in producing and marketing the “T”.

The magnificence of the individual thinker lies in the refusal to be restricted by the known universe.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

– Sir William Bragg

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

– Albert Einstein

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

– Abernathy, Clark & Kantrow

The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.

– W. Arthur Porter

The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

– Roger von Oech

The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review … again & again & again.

The achievement of excellence can occur only if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

– Lawrence Miller

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

– Lawrence Miller

That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.

– John Stuart Mill

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