Quotes on Creativity And Innovation

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.