Creativity & Innovation Mints
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
We are play in life.
Louis Armstrong
Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.
Peter Koestenbaum
Great improvisers are like priests. They are thinking only of their god.
Stephane Grapelli
Genius in fact involves sufficient energy and passion to question assumptions that have been taken for granted over long periods.
Physicist, David Bohm
Play is the exultation of the possible.
Martin Buber
Fail often to succeed sooner.
IDEO company slogan
If you want different ideas, ask different questions.
Anonymous
Creativity is a two-step process that begins with collaboration...the next step is inspiration.
Tinker Hatfield, VP Design, Nike
Creativity occurs at the intersection of previously unconnected planes of thought.
Dorothy Leonard, Professor, Harvard Business School
The more you experiment, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you create.
David Kelley, CEO Ideo
That's where I get my best ideas. It's 6 o'clock at night. People are leaning against the walls. So I say to one guy, 'Hey, what do you know about such and such?' Before you know it, it's 7 o'clock, and I have the germ of an idea for a new product.
Ed Katz, president of Courier Choice
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Anthony Jay
It doesn't work to urge people to think outside the box without giving them the tools to climb out.
Laurie Dunnavant, Product Analyst, 3M
Impatience is the enemy of innovation.
Judith Rich, Executive Creative Director, Ketchum Public Relations Worldwide
Human beings are connected by ideas.
Author, Phyllis Thoreau
Follow your bliss, and what look like walls turn into doors.
Author Joseph Campbell
My most creative work seems to be on projects where I'm inexperienced and uniquely unqualified for the job.
Paula Sher, Partner, Pentagram Design
Innovation is very hard for a business in stable equilibrium.
Author Ralph Stacey
Diversity turns out to be the mother of invention (not necessity, as the mechanists thought).
Author-Philosopher David Ogilvy
The improvising jazz band is an open system, both richly coherent and in constant flux. Thus it is capable of endless transformation.
"Web Of Inclusion" author Sally Helgesen
Thinking outside the box requires deep immersion in the here and now: where you sit determines what you think.
"Fast Company" writer Gina Imperato
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Artist Vincent van Gogh
Improvisation is full of surprises…life is improvisation.
Author John Powers
In teams that vigorously debate just one or two options, conflict often turns personal, as positions harden.
Author Kathleen Eisenhardt
Managing the process of creative abrasion means making sure that everyone in the group is talking.
Writer Dorothy Leonard
Ideas are mystical essences or beings, manifested as symbols in this world, and brought to life through art.
Plato
Truth? I care about the job, of course. But mostly, I just want to be inspired.
Dialogue from the film, Jerry McGuire
Inspire the people around you to become comfortable with the concept of "filling the blank page."
Candice Carpenter, CEO, iVillage
The best way to create wealth for employees and stockholders is to renew your commitment to developing and executing innovative strategies.
Gary Hamel, Chairman, Strategos
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook, environmentalist
Innovation...is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter Drucker
I don't care if the final results are true to my original idea, because my ideas constantly change.
Dale Chihuly, glass artist
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers--only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
Grace Hardigan, artist
The germ of an idea grows very slowly into something recognizable. It may all start with the mere desire to have an idea in the first place.
Walt Kelly
You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it.
Thomas Kuhn
The emerging economy is based on ideas more than objects.
Paul Romer, Stanford Economist
Creativity cannot flourish in an autocratic environment.
John Kao, author of "Jamming"
Defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.
Peter Drucker
If you can't have fun with a problem, you'll never solve it.
MG Taylor maxim
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katherine Hepburn
Ideas do not belong to people. Ideas live in the world as we do.
M.C. Richards, author of Centering
The one and only thing I can do to be useful is to look at things from a different point of view ... whenever you have more points of view, the choices of your getting the right solution are higher.
Scott Adams, Dilbert creator
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Miles Davis
We're in the age of the idea. The organizations that can develop a culture of creativity will be the winners.
Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts
The cease to think creatively is to cease to live.
Linus Pauling, innovator
Imagination rules the world.
Winston Churchill
The ability to innovate is more important to a firm's long term survival and prosperity than any particular innovation.
Don Peppers & Martha Rogers, authors of "The One To One Future"
The challenge isn't to keep your eye on big competitors. It's to pay attention to the innovators.
Dave Duffield, CEO of PeopleSoft
Don't talk to me about boundaries--we're pioneers.
Dialogue from the TV show Ali McBeal
The dumber the question--the more people laugh at you--the more likely it will lead to breakthroughs.
Don Winkler, Banc One Executive
Thinking spoils the creative process.
Benjamin Cheever, Novelist
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials, the more brains you have, the less material you need.
Inventor, Charles Kettering
Innovation will come from people who have crossed boundaries.
Whole systems consultant, Diane Kelly
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead
The roots of innovation lie in taking seriously and developing something which nobody else has paid attention to and which the rest of the universe might be inclined to ignore.
Author Howard Gardner
That's the thing about the so-called creative process...it's inexplicable...things just click sometimes. You get these ideas...and then there are happy accidents."
Choreographer Paul Taylor
The key to creative activity lies in the self-organization of available materials.
"Seven Life Lessons Of Chaos" authors John Briggs & F. David Peat
The great innovations come by a random process. Invention is an art form...a game of chance (where) luck plays an enormous part in the beginning
Inventor Jacob Rabinow
A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
Pablo Picasso
When I start a piece, I have no idea where I'm going. I have an idea, but no notion of what it's going to be in the end. I have parameters in terms of how big, what materials I'll use. The outcome is a complete surprise.
Brooklyn artist, Jim Hodges
I like to fix and change (a composition) until there isn't anything more to learn from it.
Choreographer, Liz Lerman
Another requirment for the creative person is...a willingness to explore everything, to be open, innocent and naive before rejecting anything.
Author, Silvano Arieti
Friends help create permission for you.
Installation artist, Ann Hamilton
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
Composer John Cage
Creative persons differ from one another in a variety of ways, but in one respect they are unanimous: They all love what they do.
Author, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
A cadre of concerned, creatively crazy people can carry almost any organization.
Frederick Douglass School Principal, Lorraine Monroe
The biggest limit to our having is our small reach, our shy embrace.
Author, Marianne Williamson
A great design has nothing more than it needs to do the job.
Smart Design President, Davin Stowell
I see the intersection of business and art as the new frontier.
LHC CEO, Steve Zades
The guy who finds the new new thing and makes it happen wins.
Entrepreneur, Jim Clark
Art is the mother of religion.
Writer, Onigaburo Deguchi
Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking.
Paul Romer
In the age of adaptation, there is no endgame, no optimum, no finale. There is only what comes next, and how we shape it. - Tom Petzinger
The world is more like it is now then it has ever been before.
Dwight David Eisenhower
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