GUEST POST from Mitch Ditkoff
- “The things we fear most in organizations — fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances — are the primary sources of creativity.” – Alfred North Whitehead
- “The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good” sense.'” – Pablo Picasso
- “Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.” – Nolan Bushnell
- “As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.” – Edward de Bono
- “I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.” – Thomas Edison
- “Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” – Theodore Levitt
- “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” – Albert Einstein
- “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
- “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” – Ray Bradbury
- “Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.” – Edwin Land
- “There’s room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you’re trying to be like somebody else, then there isn’t.” – Tori Amos
- “The key question isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create, but why do people not create.” – Abraham Maslow
- “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pierce
- “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
- “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
- “Creativity is discontent translated into arts.” – Eric Hoffer
- “A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.” – Gerald Jampolsky
- “Things are only impossible until they’re not.” – Jean-Luc Picard
- “Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.” – T.S. Eliot
- “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” – Bill Moyers
- “The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.” – Otto Rank
- “The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.” – Arthur Koestler
- “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.” – Carl Jung
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Thanks to Val Vadeboncoeur for finding these great quotes.
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