Creativity
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- The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
- The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.
- The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
- The relentless elimination of noise creates a path to innovation. Clear the unnecessary and watch new ideas bloom.
- The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.
- The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
- The way to be original is to be healthy.
- The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.
- The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
- The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
- There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
- There is a better way for everything. Find it.
- There’s a way to do it better – find it.
- To create one’s own world takes courage.
- To invent and to fail are one and the same, you cannot have one without the other.
- To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
- To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements — win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability — can flourish.
- Trust that little voice in your head that says “Wouldn’t it be interesting if..”; And then do it.
- Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
- We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- When will poets learn that a grass-blade of their own raising is worth a barrow load of flowers from their neighbor’s garden?
- Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.
- Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- You can’t do radically innovative work unless you’re willing to be misunderstood for many years.
- You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
- You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- You have got to think—to think constructively—to seek how you may discover new worlds, new methods, new needs.
- You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- "You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology."
- You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.
- Your mind is capable of creating many new and useful combinations of old ideas, but the most important thing it can create is a definite chief aim that will give you that which you most desire.