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“It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.”

Source: A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative

“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.”

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.”

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Author:Jane Pauley

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”

“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.”

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Author:Linus Pauling

“In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”

“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”

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Author:William Pollard

“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.”

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Author:William Pollard

“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”

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Author:Michael Porter

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.”

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

“Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.”

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Author:Donatella Versace

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”

“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”

Source: Teaching the gifted, challenging the average

“A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.”

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Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”

Book:Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”

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Author:Alan Alda

“Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.”

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.”

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Author:Mark Batterson

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”

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

“The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.”

“Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.”

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Author:Thomas Troward

“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

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Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.”

Source: Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”

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Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.”

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Author:Alan Cohen

“Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work.”

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Author:James Ogilvy

“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.”