Creativity
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- Entrepreneurs are artists and I mean “artists” in the true sense of the word: they see something no one else does.
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.
- Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head.
- Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
- Everyman is full of music, but it is not everyman that knows how to bring it out.
- Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.
- Everything you can imagine is real.
- From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.Akio MoritaSourced
- Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.
- Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
- He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
- I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
- I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
- I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
- I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
- I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
- Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple of them and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.John SteinbeckSourced
- If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
- If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
- If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
- If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.
- If you are wise, you will slip away occasionally to the secret chambers of self-imposed seclusion. Four faithful friends await you there: Solitude, Stillness, Silence, and Serenity. Indeed, they are more than friends; they are cradles of creativity.
- If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
- If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
- If you would create something, you must be something.
- Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- Imagining the future may be more important than analyzing the past.C. K. PrahaladSourced
- In composing a book, the last thing that one learns is to know what to put first.
- Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
- Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.Max MckeownSourced
- Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle.
- Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.
- Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.
- Intelligence uses what is known to solve problems. Creativity uses what is unknown to discover possibilities.