Creativity can be nurtured by encouraging and rewarding…

The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far.

— Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

— John Dewey

“The core of every artist, brand, or organization is believability. I believe Basquiat, Kahlo, Mahler, and Hemingway because they stuck to their core values,…

— Rod Judkins

“Knowledge is borrowed. Imagination is original. It is the power of imagination that makes us different from our animal ancestors.”

— Banani Ray

Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.

— Sark

“Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real world, with…

— Joe Hill

I love really creative thinking that can make the ordinary extraordinary.

— George Clarke

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The most important factor in every function is: ‘Is it under our control or not?’ So when imagination is under our control we do…

— P.D. Ouspensky

“Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.”

— Amit Kalantri

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

— Mary Henle

“Consider Rutherford playing his thoroughly unlikely hunch about alpha backscattering, Heisenberg remembering an obscure remark of Einstein’s and concluding that nature only performed in…

— Richard Rhodes