CREATIVITY QUOTES

CREATIVITY - generating new and useful ideas

“Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to shake up their thinking as though their brains are kaleidoscopes, permitting an array of different patterns out of the same bits of reality.” Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1943 - present), Harvard Business professor and change management expert

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519) Italian scientist, inventor, painter, sculptor, musician and writer

“I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.” Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) physicist and Nobel Laureate

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I’ve found it!), but ‘That’s funny…’” Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) American biochemistry professor and science fiction author

“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”  Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1875) American Clergyman

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”  Goethe (1749-1832), German poet

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.”  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894) American physician, poet and humorist.

I didn’t fail 10,000 times, I successfully eliminated 10,000 materials and combinations that didn’t work. Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931) American inventor, scientist and businessman