@CyrielKortleven 69 Amazing Creativity Quotes
Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible. - Javier Pascual Salcedo
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again. - Albert Einstein
Failure is not an option. It s a privilege for those who try. - Anonymous
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates and a monthly salary. Fred Wilson http://www.flickr.com/photos/30785416@n06/3540447370/
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man s brow. Charles Brower
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. - Albert Einstein http://www.flickr.com/photos/bagsgroove/5722251013/
Change is the parent of progress. - Steve Maraboli
If opportunity doesn t knock, build a door. - Milton Berle
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition. - Ed Mc Cabe
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. - Rumi
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes
Minds are like parachutes, they work best when open. - Thomas Dewar http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178335311/
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. - William Plomer
The impossible is temporary. - Cassius Clay
"Every act of creation is first of all, an act of destruction. - Pablo Picasso
Necessity is the mother of invention. - Anonymous
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur Clarke
We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. - Mother Teresa http://www.flickr.com/photos/petermackie/5344935037/
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
The impossible is often the untried. - Jim Goodwin
" Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better." - Martin Luther King
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. - Steve Maraboli
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it. - Albert Einstein
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
The stone age didn t end because they ran out of stones. - Anonymous
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Andre Gide
There are no old roads to new directions. - The Boston Consulting Group
You never fail until you stop trying. - Albert Einstein
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. Henry David Thoreau
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay
Out of the Box or Out of Business. Cyriel Kortleven
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear. - Vincent Van Gogh
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. - Arthur Koestler http://www.flickr.com/photos/capture-creation/5612911717/
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. - Gail Sheehy
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, takings risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun." - Mary Lou Cook
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." - Edward de Bono
"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations." - Gerald Jampolsky
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou
"Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual." - Arthur Koestler
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play." - - John Cleese http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug88888/4551753154/
You have all the reason to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination + innovation equals realisation - Denis Waitley
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
Whether you think you can, or think you can t, you re right. - Henry Ford
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
Ideas are useless unless used. - Theodore Levitt
Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices. - Lewis Duncan
I have not failed. I have just found 10.000 ways that not work. - Thomas Edison
"It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen - 99U conference
Innovation is anything, but business as usual. - Anonymous
It s tough when markets change and your people within the company don t. - Harvard Business Review
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher
The best time to plant à tree is twenty years ago, the second best time is today. Anonymous
There are no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas A. Edison
"The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it. - Anonymous
"Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things." - Theodore Levitt
'If plan 'A' fails, remember you - Chris Guillebeau have 25 letters left.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard
"When the waters are a little choppy, that's your opportunity to show that you're a steady captain. - Neil Blumenthal
Everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don t think everybody is disciplined. - Al Hirschfeld
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period. - Brene Brown
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation. - Gary Hamel http://www.flickr.com/photos/wellcomeimages/5814146867/
It s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. - Bill Gates
Failure is success in progress - Albert Einstein http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_brazilian/3391525800/
Ambition is the last refuge of failure. - Oscar Wilde
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. Michael Jordan
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