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Creativity Quotes

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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.

André Malraux Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence (1951)

We must all begin to question the experts. They have not really been right. No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.

Coretta Scott King Harvard class day address (1968)

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Joseph Addison The free-holder: or political essays (1716)

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

George Santayana The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)

Creativity is an integral part of our personality.

Jerzy Vetulani

Young writers take that most communal object, language, and perform on it that most individual act, creation.

Samuel R. Delany Neveryóna (1983)

Designers should only innovate as a last resort.

Charles Eames

Really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems.

Gilbert & George

Successful innovators focused on technology as a driver of value, not just as a tool for operational efficiency.

Constantinos C. Markides

Successful innovators are early adopters of ICT in their industry, even if the technology is already dispersed in other industries.

Constantinos C. Markides

A company's ability to innovate, improve, and learn ties directly to the company's value.

David P. Norton David P. Norton (1992)

Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation, into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

Clayton M. Christensen Clayton M. Christensen (1999)

Nothing neutralizes creativity quicker than tokenism, that false sense of security fed by a myth of individual solutions.

Audre Lorde Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

I think there are so many different ways to communicate sustainability, and our way is to look at it from a more creative perspective.

Jessica Minh Anh Jessica Minh Anh (2020)

The only way you can get to the very positive scenario [in the fight against climate change] is by great innovation. Innovation really does bend the curve.

Bill Gates

Creativity is a hidden gem. Education is needed to uncover it.

Ataol Behramoğlu The Poet's Poetic Responsibility (2012)

When it comes to climate change, I know innovation isn’t the only thing we need. But we cannot keep the earth livable without it. Techno-fixes are not sufficient, but they are necessary.

Bill Gates How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021)

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Art Spiegelman

I feel like when I work that is my time to express myself and to be creative and to really delve into somebody else’s mind, heart and psyche. That is my thing.

Gwyneth Paltrow

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

Gillian Anderson

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