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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.”

“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

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

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.”

“The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.”

“The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.”

“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.”

“We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

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