Ideas And Creativity Quotes:

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

- Marie Curie

source: "Living Adventures in Science‎". Book by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, 1954.

topic: Thoughtful, Ideas, Gossip, Inquisitive, Marie

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Life Wisdom

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

- Theodore Levitt

topic: Change, Creativity, Thinking, Innovation And Business, Innovation Inspiration

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Creative People, Creative Artists

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

- Salvador Dali

topic: Funny, Music, Sarcastic, Fine Arts, Imperfect Person

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Success, Business, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Motivational, Spiritual, Art, Creative People, Inspiration And Creativity

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspiring, Wisdom, Art, Creative Artists, Creative Art

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

- John Updike

source: John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.22, Random House

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Education, Inspiration And Creativity, Inspire Creativity

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

- Linus Pauling

topic: Inspiring, Education, Business, Inspiration To Write, Logical Ideas

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Love, Life, Success, Nonsensical, Creative People

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

- Rajneesh

topic: Life, Dance, Mean, Creative People, Art And Creativity

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!". Book by Dr. Seuss, August 21, 1975.

topic: Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking, I Can Read, Creative Thought

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

- John Cage

source: "From mundane to marvellous: Darren Fletcher's startling transformation" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Art, Creativity, Cat, Creative People, Creative Ideas

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Creativity, Imagination, Creative, Inspiration And Creativity, Creative Work

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Business, Creativity, Bad Ass, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

- Edward de Bono

source: Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

topic: Creativity, Order, Patterns, Art And Creativity, Creativity And Innovation

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Life, Confidence, Believe, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Mistake, Inspirational Graduation, Inspire Students

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Inspirational, Women, Writing, Spiritual Soul, Inspirational Wisdom

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Inspiration And Art, Inspiration And Creativity

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

- Ken Robinson

topic: Creativity, Ideas, Different, Original Ideas, Related To Creativity

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

- William L. McKnight

topic: Creativity, Sheep, Giving, Ideas And Creativity

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Cells, Imagination, Brain, Wakes You, Dark Fantasy

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

- Walt Disney

source: "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

topic: Moving Forward, Long, Creative, Inspiration And Creativity, Just Keep Moving

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Work, Life Changing, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

- Dee Hock

topic: Creativity, Mind, Creative People, Creative Artists, Inspire Creativity

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

- Mark Batterson

topic: Taken, Creativity, Games, Social Innovation, Nolan

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

- Banksy

topic: Life, Beautiful, Kings, Street Art, Think Outside The Box

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

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Done, Innovation And Business, Inspirational And Innovation

Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

- John Bonifaz

topic: War, Done, Impossible, Journey Inspirational, Journey To Success

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

- Lou Dorfsman

topic: Beautiful, Lonely, Art, Creative People, Creative Person

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

- Konosuke Matsushita

topic: Ideas, Notes, Worthy, Brainstorming, Lateral Thinking

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Inspiring, Teacher, Learning, Creative People, Inspiration And Creativity

Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

- Robert M. Hayes

source: Robert M. Hayes (1994). “How I Made Millions with Just a Few Simple Ideas!”, Garrett Pub

topic: Taken, Bad Ass, Ideas, Inspiration And Creativity, Disgruntled

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

- Edith Södergran

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Creativity, Ideas And Creativity

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

- Alfred Nobel

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Be Good, Original Ideas, Power Of Ideas

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspiring, Business, Creativity, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Innovation

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: Motivation, Business, Inspiration, Energy And Enthusiasm, Ideas And Creativity

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken

topic: Life And Love, Business, Congratulations, Daily Work, Innovation And Business

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

- Michael Porter

topic: Creativity, Issues, Innovation, Innovation And Leadership, Innovative Ideas

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.

- Roger von Oech

source: Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

topic: Inspirational, Letting Go, Creativity, Innovation And Business, Innovation Inspiration