Today we are going through some of the best innovation quotes and creativity quotes. Innovation and creativity is all about association of existing ideas, taking risks and prepare to meet failures and even ridicules. Then bravely bounces back and keep trying out new ideas.
The hard-hitting adman Carl Ally said a creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
While writer and management consultant Margaret J. Wheatley, aka Meg Wheatley said:”Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren’t there before.”
Right, now let’s check out some of my favorite innovation quotes and creativity quotes to keep you inspired.
“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” – Woody Allen
“Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.” – Watts Humprey
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” – Theodore Levitt
“Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not?” – Robert Kennedy
“Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.” – Albert Einstein
“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”
– Dr. Linus Pauling
“The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.” – James Yorke
“The things we fear most in organizations — fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances — are the primary sources of creativity.” – Margaret J. Wheatley
“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.” – Denis Waitley
“When all think alike, then no one is thinking.” – Walter Lippman
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.” – W. Arthur Porter
“Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.” Theodor Reik
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” – Albert Einstein
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
“You don’t understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.” – M. Minsky
“Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.” – Watts Humprey
“Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart.” – Mencius (Meng-Tse)
“A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can’t be creative without playing.” – Kurt Hanks and Jay Parry
“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.” – Anthony Jay
“Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” – George Kneller
“Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.” – Carl Jung
“The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” – Edwin H. Land
“All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.” – Charles Kettering
“Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.” – Alan Cohen
“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” – Thomas Edison
“We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot
“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.” – Linus Pauling
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” – Sir Ken Robinson
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm
“The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.” – James Bertrand
“There’s a way to do it better—find it.” – Thomas Edison
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.” – James Russell Lowel
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” – Picasso
“Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.” – Robert Wieder
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” – Jonh Steinbeck
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions” – Albert Einstein
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” – Mary Lou Cook
“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.” – Stephen Nachmanovitch
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” — Joseph Chilton Pierce
“If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.” – Heraclitus
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“Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” – Howard Aiken
“Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.” – Frank Tyger
“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
“Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.” – Michael Vance
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