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Creativity Quotes

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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love (1963)

Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.

Martin Heidegger Nietzsche (1961)

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

Robert Heller The Decision makers (1989)

Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.

James Fitzjames Stephen Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Hermann Hesse Hermine in Steppenwolf (1927)

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

Relaxed, playful and harmonious moments are the birth place of creativity.

Amit Ray Meditation: Insights and Inspiration (2010)

Customers don't have a clue what you're talking about, and you don't have a clue if they will behave as you assume.

Steve Blank

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

Sergey Brin

The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.

Patrick Dixon Building a Better Business (2005)

The test of the originality for an idea is not the absence of one single predecessor but the presence of multiple but incompatible ones.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

Robert Heller The Decision Makers (1989)

Creativity is a life-affirming activity. Lack of response to creativity and being condemned to write for the desk drawer is a stifling, destructive experience.

Chava Rosenfarb A Yiddish Writer Reflects on Translation (2005)

Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.

Geoffrey Blainey The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia (2016)

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

Francis Bacon

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;
For master and servant oft changing is loss.

Thomas Tusser

At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something, not to not make mistakes.

Mark Zuckerberg

Broken symmetry is imperfection, but rich in creativity. The universe is created out of broken symmetry.

Amit Ray Meditation: Insights and Inspiration (2010)

I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.

Max Stirner

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in Business, Science, and Technology for that matter, is never to follow the others. We bet the company on that basic technology (the Trinitron TV), and in 23 years nobody has been able to match it.

Masaru Ibuka

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