Creativity And Innovation Quotes - Page 5

• There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Innovation, Periods

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• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

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• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

  Martha Graham

  Positive, Uplifting, Dance

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, Wisdom, Humorous

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

  Linus Pauling

  Ideas, Creative, Innovation

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• It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Job, People, Innovation

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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

  George Lois

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Creativity

  "'Damn Good Advice' From One Of The Real 'Mad Men'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 19, 2012.

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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Creativity, Science

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.110

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• History is the same thing over and over again.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Bores You

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• 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.

  Thomas Troward

  Attitude, Creativity, Creative

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• 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.

  James Ogilvy

  Inspirational, Moving, Creativity

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Children, Attitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

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• Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Memories, Creativity, Innovation

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.7

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• Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Creativity, Hands, Creative

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• You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Dance, Love Life

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• 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.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Creativity, Organization, Creative Collaboration

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• The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

  Lawrence M. Miller

  Creativity, Organization, Achievement

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• Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

  Seth Godin

  Perseverance, Fear, Failure

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• The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

  Seth Godin

  Creativity, Successful, People

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• We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

  John Cleese

  Humorous, Creativity, Two

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• 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.

  Robert M. Hayes

  Taken, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Robert M. Hayes (1994). “How I Made Millions with Just a Few Simple Ideas!”, Garrett Pub

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• Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Creativity, Hands

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• The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone
  creative?'

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Keys, Creative

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Love Life, Creativity

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