Creativity - quotes

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you are keeping the man-child alive. John Cassavetes

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned. Edward de Bono

It is not enough to just do your best or work hard. You must know what to work on. W. Edwards Deming

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Charles Dickens

The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them. Albert Einstein

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

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. Albert Einstein

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.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art. E.M. Forster

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination. Bill Gates

Children between the ages of two and seven are very imaginative. This is the best period for the development of imagination, creativity and thinking abilities. Chiam Heng Keng Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. Joseph Joubert

Creative novelty springs largely from the rearrangement of the existing knowledge, a rearrangement that is itself an addition to knowledge. J. Kneller

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Dr. Edwin Land

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. James Lowell

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. Charles M. Schwab

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others. Konosuke Matsushita

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

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham

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

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. Louie Pasteur

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. Linus Pauling

That human mind is like a parachute - it functions better when it is open. Cole's Rules

Neccesity is the mother of invention, it is true - but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife. Jonathan Schattke

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. George Bernard Shaw

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. Saul Steinberg

Dicovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyl

Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea. Charles Thompson

The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. Albert Einstein

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. unknown

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. unknown

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My business is to create. unknown

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. unknown