Creativity/Innovation Quotes

Creative clutter is better than tidy idleness.

Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Contentment: The smother of invention.

Confound these ancestors…. They’ve stolen our best ideas!

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

Barbarians keep a culture lively, citizens keep it orderly. With too many barbarians, the culture moves toward anarchy. With too many citizens, the culture becomes ingrown and tends to stagnate. We need both. What’s really fascinating about this concept is the cultural impact of citizens who used to be barbarians.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shaped, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. Surely every medicine is an innovation and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.

As long as it is not out of proportion to a situation, anxiety is actually good for you, because there is a close relation between anxiety and creativity, originality and intelligence.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.

A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can’t be creative without playing.

A good explorer knows that looking for ideas is like prospecting for gold. If you look in the same old places, you’ll find tapped-out veins. But if you’re curious and poke around in new areas, you’ll improve your chances of discovering new idea lodes. Venture off the beaten path.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.