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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.”

“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.”

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.”

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

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”

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

“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.”