Distraction Quote by Robert Genn

What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

— Theodore Levitt

Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than…

— Daniel H. Pink

The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in…

— David Livermore

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

— Theodore Levitt

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

— Eckhart Tolle

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

— Frederick Seitz

Just too much fast thinking all the time. I think of so many things all at once, it gets exhausting. You start seeing all…

— Rita Ackermann

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a…

— John C. Maxwell

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Don’t think innovation, think usefulness.

— Chris Guillebeau

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because…

— Steve Jobs