Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren G. Bennis

Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

Yanni

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

Wiz Khalifa

I'm inspired by other people's creativity, just seeing things happen and wondering where they come from. That gets my mind going. Even if it's just wanting to know how something works.

Winston Graham

I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.

Wim Wenders

The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.

Yukio Mishima

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Ziggy Marley

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

Zhuangzi

The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him?

Zhuangzi

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.

Willa Cather

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

Warren Buffett

There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

Vladimir Kramnik

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

Wayne Dyer

The way to establish a relationship with Spirit and access the power of this creating principle is to continuously contemplate yourself as being surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce.

Virginia Woolf

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Virginia Woolf

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

William Bernbach

Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

William Bernbach

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

William Bernbach

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

William Bernbach

The heart of creativity is discipline.

William Bernbach

It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.

Werner Herzog

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

Wayne Pacelle

Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome.

Wilferd Peterson

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress

Wavy Gravy

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

Voltaire

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

William Pollard

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

William Plomer

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plomer

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Hunter

Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity

Yo-Yo Ma

Music has always been transnational;

William S. Burroughs

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

William S. Burroughs

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

William McDonough

We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?