If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
When all think alike, then no one is thinking
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.
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 uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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.
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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 comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: