Creativity And Innovation Quotes

It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

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

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

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.

Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

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

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

History is the same thing over and over again.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.