Creativity Quotes

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The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn… — Adolf Hitler
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never… — David Brewster
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure. — Saul Bass
Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. — Daisaku Ikeda
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover
Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer,… — Alan Robinson
Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things. — Roger Enrico
The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity. — Robert H. Schuller
Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation… — Teresa Amabile
Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist. — Anita Roddick
An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction. — Peter Drucker
Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly. — Robert H. Schuller
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. — Soren Kierkegaard
Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created. — Albert Einstein
Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who… — Hugh Prather
Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it. — Ray Kurzweil
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. — Doris Lessing
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. — Jean Dubuffet

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