Innovation Quotes
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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. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: Only stand out of my light. Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. (Quote by - John W. Gardner)
There's a way to do it better—find it. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
In every work of genius, we recognize our once rejected thoughts. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. (Quote by - Albert von Szent-Gyorgy)
Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. (Quote by - Frank Tyger)
Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart. (Quote by - Mencius)
The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause. (Quote by - Warren Bennis)
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. (Quote by - Edward de Bono)
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. (Quote by - Roger von Oech)
You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways. (Quote by - M. Minsky)
M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. The incompetent never get in a position to destroy it. It is those who achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. (Quote by - F. M. Young)
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell )
Success is on the far side of failure. (Quote by - Thomas Watson Sr.)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction. (Quote by - Lawrence Miller)
If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work. (Quote by - James Ogilvy)
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. (Quote by - Linus Pauling)
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. (Quote by - Edward de Bono)
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. (Quote by - Howard Aiken)
Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not? (Quote by - Robert Kennedy)
To be creative you have to contribute something different from what you've done before. Your results need not be original to the world; few results truly meet that criterion. In fact, most results are built on the work of others. (Quote by - Lynne C. Levesque)
Capital isn't so important in business. Experience isn't so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. (Quote by - Harvey Firestone)
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. (Quote by - Anthony Jay)
To have a great idea, have a lot of them. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. (Quote by - Theodore Levitt)
Innovation (Quote by - any new idea—by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience. (Quote by - Warren Bennis)
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. (Quote by - Dr. Linus Pauling)
The things we fear most in organizations—fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances—re the primary sources of creativity. (Quote by - Margaret )
Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. (Quote by - Watts Humprey)
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. (Quote by - Picasso)
When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase in overall ability and ... often five to ten times more effectiveness. (Quote by - Robert Ornstein)
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. (Quote by - Robert Wieder)
The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail. (Quote by - Edwin H. Land)
The business world sees a measurable and growing intelligence gap - with need for intellectual expertise constantly expanding. Available talent is decreasing even though the population is increasing. Being bombarded with information - be it in Nintendo or shogi - and being able to process it, find patterns etc., is a vital skill. One way to increase this talent potential is through games. (Quote by - Leif Edvinson)
The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams. (Quote by - W. Arthur Porter)
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. (Quote by - Chuck Jones)
He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date. (Quote by - Roger von Oech)
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. (Quote by - Charles Kettering)
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. (Quote by - George Kneller)
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
When all think alike, then no one is thinking. (Quote by - Walter Lippman)
Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future. (Quote by - James Bertrand)
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. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
