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“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.”

“Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.”

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.”

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”

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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.”

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

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

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

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

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

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

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.”

“The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.”

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.”

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”