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Creativity/Innovation Quotes

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In order to solve pertinent problems, there is no other way but to seek and implement new forms of relationship and interaction. Only the creative interaction of divergent groups … will allow for the answers we all seek to emerge.

– Mikhail Gorbachev

In every work of genius, we recognize our once rejected thoughts.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

– Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

– Albert Einstein

If you want to be part of the solution, get involved. If you don’t, don’t complain.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

– John Cleese

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

If you are speaking from experience, you are already out of date.

– Dennis Waitley

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it’s time to find something new.

– Kathie Lee Gifford

If two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

– Milton Berle

If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness when everything is as it was in my childhood – violent, vivid, and of infinite possibility.

– Richard Eberhart

If everyone thought the same way, no one would be thinking.

– John Diefenbaker

Ideas are like apples; to get them you have to shake the tree.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

– John Steinbeck

I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.

– Wernher von Braun

He who never walks except where he sees other men’s tracks will make no discoveries.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

– Francis Bacon

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart.

Genius can be stimulated by a powerful, challenging problem. It can be nurtured by an environment that eliminates fear and honors failure. It can be encouraged by the open flow of information and free interaction of people from all parts of the organization.

– Wake-up Brain

For the purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

– Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

– Pablo Picasso

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

– Frank Tyger

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

– Albert Szent-Gyorgi

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

– R. Zaphiropoulos

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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