You don't think your way to creative work. You work your…

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

— Theodore Levitt

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the…

— Jim Hunt

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

— Ray Bradbury

“Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work at being creative.”

— A. Dalcourt

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

— Steve Jobs

“You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity— they do not easily release their hold.”

— Richie Norton

“One thing about creative work is that it’s never done. In different words, every person we interviewed said that it was equally true that…

— Todd Henry

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“… ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself Ricky Nelson (Referring to creative works, not other things)”

— Anonymous

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

— John Dewey

Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant…

— Todd Haynes

If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and…

— Ayn Rand

As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike.…

— Lawrence Lessig

The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and…

— John Kao