Quotes in Creativity

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Thinking is the ultimate human resource.The quality of our future will dependentirely on the quality of our thinking

Edward De Bono


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Imagination is more important than

knowledge, for knowledge is limited,

whereas imagination embraces the wholeworld

-Albert Einstein


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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

-Mary Kay Ash


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If we are strong enough there are no

precedents-F. Scott Fitzgerald


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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple &

learn how to handle them and pretty soon

you have dozens- John Steinbeck


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In every work of genius we recognize our own

rejected thoughts

-Ralph waldo Emerson


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A successful work of art is not one whichresolves contradictions in a spuriousharmony, but one which expresses the ideaofharmony negatively by embodying thecontradictions, pure and uncompromised,in its innermost structure

-Theodore Adorno


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Vision without action is merely a dream.

Action without vision just passes the time.

Vision with action can change the world!

-Joel Arthur Barker


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To ask the hard question is simple- W.H. Auden


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I'

m not young enough

to know everyth

ing.-J.M. Barrie


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The sorcery and charm of imagination, and

the power it gives to the individual to

transform his world into a new world oforder and delight, makes it one of the most

treasured of all human capacities.

- Frank Barron


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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the

men of old; seek what they sought.

-Matsuo Basho


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If the doors of perception were cleansed

everything would appear to man as it is,

infinite.

-William Blake


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What is now proved was once only imagined.

-William Blake


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Life is "trying things to see if they work".-Ray Bradbury


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The good ideas are all hammered out in

agony by individuals, not spewed out bygroups.

-Charles Brower


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God spare me sclerosis of curiosity, for the

curiosity which craves to keep us informed

about th

e small th

ings no less th

an th

elarge is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet

propulsion of all complete living.

-John Brown


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Whenever man comes up with a bettermousetrap, nature immediately comes up

with a better mouse. -James Carswell


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No matter how old you get, if you can keep

the desire to be creative, you're keeping theman-child alive.

-John Cassavetes


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If you really want something you can figure

outh

ow to make ith

appen. -Cher


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One sees great things from the valley, only

small things from the peak.

- G.K. Chesterton


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When the way comes to an end, then

change - having changed, you passthrough.

-I Ching


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No idea is so outlandish that it should notbe considered with a searching but at the

same time steady eye.-Winston Churchill


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Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not

to be looked for in an imperfect world.

-Winston Churchill


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Imagination is the living power and prime

agent of all human perception.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

-Jules Combarie


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No one travels so high as he who knows

where he is going.-Oliver Cromwell


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I was taught that the way of progress is

neith

er swift nor easy. -Marie Curie


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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill

that can be learnt. It empowers people by

adding strength to their natural abilities

which improves teamwork, productivity and

where appropriate profits.

-Edward de Bono


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It is better to have enough ideas for some of

them to be wrong, than to be always rightbyhaving no ideas at all.

-Edward de Bono


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There is no doubt that creativity is the most

importanth

uman resource of all.W

ith

outcreativity, there would be no progress, andwe would be forever repeating the samepatterns.

-Edward de Bono


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Intelligence is something we are born with.

Thinking is a skill that must be learned.-Edward de Bono


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It is not enough to just do your best or work

hard. You must know what to work on.-W. Edwards Deming


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It is not enough to have a good mind, themain thing is to use it well.

-Rene Descartes


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Every great advance in science has issued

from a new audacity of imagination.- John Dewey


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The whole difference between constructionand creation is exactly this: that a thing

constructed can only be loved after it isconstructed; but a thing created is lovedbefore it exists.

-Charles Dickens


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Knowledge is being applied to knowledgeitself. It is now fast becoming the one factor

in production, sidelining both capital andlabour.

-Peter Drucker


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Genius is one percent inspiration, and

ninety-nine percent perspiration.-Thomas Edison


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knowledge.-Albert Einstein


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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to

regard old problems from a new anglerequires a creative imagination and marks

the real advances in science.

-Albert Einstein


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Reality is an illusion, albeit a very

persistent one.

-Albert Einstein


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If at first the idea is not absurd, then thereis no hope for it.

-Albert Einstein


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knowledge. For while knowledge defines all

we currently know and understand,imagination points to all we might yet

discover and create.

-Albert Einstein


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Where is the wisdom that we have lost in

knowledge?Wh

ere is th

e knowledge wehave lost in information?-T.S. Elliot


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The creation of a thousand forests is in one

acorn.-RalphWaldo Emerson


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People are disturbed, not by things, but by

the views they take of them.-Epictetus


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Whether you believe you can, or whetheryou believe you can't, you're absolutely

right.Henry Ford


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The more you think, the more time you

have.

Henry Ford


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In the creative state a man is taken out of

himself. He lets down as it were a bucket

into his subconscious, and draws up

something which is normally beyond hisreach. He mixes this thing withhis normal

experiences and out of the mixture he

makes a work of art.

-E.M. Forster


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To take the difficulties, setbacks and

sorrows of life as a challenge, to overcome

makes us stronger, rather than view them

as unjust punishment which should nothappen to us. This ability requires faith

and courage.

-Erich Fromm


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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts the

moment you get up in the morning anddoes not stop until you get to the office.

-Robert Frost


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Persistence is the hard work that you doafter you are tired of doing the hard workyou already did .

-Newt Gingrich


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What you can do, or dream you can, begin

it; boldness has genius, power and magic in

it.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved

forward.Th

ey may be beaten, so th

at th

eymay start of a winning game.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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If you wish to advance into the infinite,

explore the finite in all directions.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The ultimate solutions to problems are

rational; the process of finding them is not.-W. Gordon


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To live is to have problems and to solve

problems is to grow intellectually.-J.P. Guilford


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Children between the ages of two and seven

are very imaginative. This is the best periodfor the development of imagination,creativity and thinking abilities.

- Chiam Heng Keng


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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a

life's experience.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes


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The human mind once stretched by a new

idea never goes back to its originaldimensions.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes


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The profit of great ideas comes when you

turn them into reality.-Tom Hopkins


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Greater than the tread of mighty armies isan idea whose time has come.

-Victor Hugo


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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.-Dean Inge


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In the dim background of our mind we

know what we ought to be doing but

somehow we cannot start.-William James


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You cannot mandate productivity, you must

provide the tools to let people become theirbest.

-Steve Jobs


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Curiosity is one of the most permanent andcertain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

-Samuel Johnson


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He who has imagination without learning

has wings and no feet.-Joseph Joubert


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A person needs a little madness, or elsethey never dare cut the rope and be free.

-Nikos Kazantzakis


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Ideas shape the course ofhistory.

-John Maynard Keynes


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Creative novelty springs largely from therearrangement of the existing knowledge, a

rearrangement th

at is itself an addition toknowledge.-J. Kneller


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An essential aspect of creativity is not being

afraid to fail.

-Dr. Edwin Land


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In creating, the onlyhard thing is to begin;

a grass-blade's no easier to make than an

oak.-James Lowell


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For a man to carry on a successful

business, he must have imagination. He

must see things in a vision, a dream of the

whole thing.

-Charles M. Schwab


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A person who can create ideas worthy of

note is a person who has learned muchfrom others.

-Konosuke Matsushita


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We are apt to think that our ideas are thecreation of our own wisdom but the truth isthat they are the result of the experiencethrough outside contact.

-Konosuke Matsushita


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Life changes when we change.

-Andrew Matth

ews


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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary

to common belief, is more powerful in the

mature than in the young.-W. Somerset Maugham


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Never doubt that a small group ofthoughtful, committed citizens can changethe world. Indeed it's the only thing that

ever has.-Margaret Mead


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To be a man of knowledge one needs to be

light and fluid.

-Yaqui Mystic


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IfIhave seen further it is by standing on

the shoulders of giants.

-Isaac Newton


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It is easier to tone down a wild idea than tothink up a new one.

-Alex Osborne


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Change only favours minds that are

diligently looking and preparing for

discovery.

-Louis Pasteur


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The best way to get a good idea is to get a

lot of ideas.-Linus Pauling


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The only joy in the world is to begin.-Cesare Pavese


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Even if you are on the right track, you will

get run over if you just stand still.- Will Rogers


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That human mind is like a parachute - it

functions better when it is open.


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Children reinvent your world for you.

-Susan Sarandon


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Necessity is the mother of invention, it is

true - but it's fat

her is creativity, andknowledge is the midwife.

-Jonathan Schattke


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Few people think more than two or three

times a year.I've made an internationalreputation for myself by thinking once or

twice a week.

-George Bernard Shaw


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Imagination is the beginning of creation.

-George Bernard Shaw


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There are no foolish questions and no manbecomes a fool until he has stopped asking

questions.-Saul Steinberg


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Ihave learned throughout my life as acomposer chiefly through my mistakes and

pursuits of false assumptions, not by myexposure to founts of wisdom andknowledge.

-Igor Stravinsky


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In the beginner's mind there are many

possibilities, but in the expert's mind there

are few.-Shunryu Suzuki


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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody

has seen and thinking what nobodyhasthought.

-Albert Szent-Gyorgyl


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Creativity consists of coming up with many

ideas, not just that one great idea.

- Charles Thompson


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Natural resources have dropped out of the

competitive equation. In fact, a lack of

natural resources may even be an

advantage. Because the industries we are

competing for - the industries of the future

- are all based on brainpower.

-Lester

Thurow


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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is

life.-Alvin Toffler


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The man with a new idea is a crank - until

the idea succeeds.

-Mark Twain


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Originality is nothing but judicious

imitation.

-Voltaire


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Attachment is the great fabricator of

illusions; reality can be attained only bysomeone who is detached.

-Andrei Voznesensky


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The art of creation is older than the art of

killing.-Andrei Voznesensky


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Be not afraid of learning slowly, be afraid of

standing still


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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you

something


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An idea can turn to dust or magic,depending on the person that rubs against

it.


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Don't let what you cannot do interfere with

what you can do


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Every really new idea looks crazy at first


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Genius, in truth, means little more than the

faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way


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Great spirits have always encountered

violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Enstein


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How many people know how to use a

computer on th

eir desk but don't know

howto use the computer in their head?

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