Creativity, ideas and imagination quotations
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange
these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange
these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw
“A good idea doesn’t mind who has it.”
David Bernstein
“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”
Anonymous
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.”
Albert Camus
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way”
Edward de Bono
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, having fun.”
Mary Lou Cook
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
Charles Mingus
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free." Nikos Kazantzakis
"A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others." Konosuke Matsushita
"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached." Andrei Voznesensky
"Creative novelty springs largely from the rearrangement of the existing knowledge, a rearrangement that is itself an addition to knowledge." J. Kneller
"Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits." Edward de Bono
"Focus should be to encourage and develop creativity in all children without the ultimate goal being to make all children inventors, but rather to develop a future generation of critical thinkers." Faraq Mousa
"Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
"He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet." Joseph Joubert
"Ideas shape the course of history." John Maynard Keynes
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." Albert Einstein
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." William Blake
"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen." Cher "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create." Albert Einstein
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." George Bernard Shaw "Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception." Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned." Edward de Bono "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." Edward de Bono "It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one." Alex Osborne "Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true - but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife." Jonathan Schattke
"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time steady eye." Winston Churchill "No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive." John Cassavetes
"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit." Sir Frederick G. Banting "Originality is nothing but judicious imitation." Voltaire
"The art of creation is older than the art of killing." Andrei Voznesensky
"The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas."
Linus Pauling
"The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes." Saul Steinberg
"The man with a new idea is a crank - until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Unknown "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." Edward de Bono
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires a creative imagination and marks the real advances in science." Albert Einstein
"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!" Joel Arthur Barker
"We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact." Konosuke Matsushita
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." Frank Tibolt
"What is now proved was once only imagined." William Blake
"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism." Dean Inge
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." Mary Kay Ash
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