40 Inspiring Quotes On Creativity And Innovation

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out. - Jeff Bezos

1. Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart. -  Mencius (Meng-Tse), 4th century BCE

1. Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment. - J. K. Rowling

3. When all think alike, then no one is thinking — Walter Lippman

4. Doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different results, is the definition of crazy. -  Unknown

5. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. -  Albert von Szent-Gyor

6. Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

7. Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not? - Robert Kenned

8 Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

9. If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. - Heraclitus

10. All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. - Charles Kettering

11.There's a way to do it better—find it. - Thomas Edison

12. It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

13. I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. - Thomas Edison

14. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell

15. Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there. –Barbara Corcoran

16. Innovation comes from saying NO to 1,000 things. – Steve Job

17. Innovation only survives when people believe in their own ideas. – Levo League

18. It always seems impossible until it is done. – Nelson Mandela

19. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. – Socrates

20. If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

21. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try. – Dr. Seuss

22.  Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. – Erich Fromm

23. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. -  Albert Einstein

24. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow

25. Necessity is the mother of invention. - Anonymous

26. We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re certain it wasn’t a fish. - John Culkin

27. The stone age didn’t end because they ran out of stones. - unknown

28. We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before. - Deepak Chopra

29. The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all what the world needs most are dreamers that do. – Sarah Ban Breathnach

30. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castenada

31. Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress. –Li Keqiang

32. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.–Albert Einstein

33. The best way to predict the future is to create it.–Alan Kay

34. The more you think, the more time you have.—Henry Ford

35. The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.  -  Ginni Rometty

36. Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.  -  Tom Freston

37. We  will  discover  the  nature  of  our  particular  genius  when  we  stop  trying  to  conform  to  our own  and  other’s  people’s  models,  learn  to  be  ourselves  and  allow  our  natural  channel  to  open. — Shakti  Gawain

38. Sit  down  before  fact  as  a  little  child,  be  prepared  to  give  up  every  conceived  notion,  follow humbly  wherever  and  whatever  abysses  nature  leads,  or  you  will  learn  nothing.—  Huxley, Thomas

39. I  began  by  tinkering  around  with  some old  tunes  I  knew.  Then,  just  to  try  something different,  I  set  to  putting  some  music  to  the rhythm  that  I  used  in  jerking  ice-cream  sodas at  the  Poodle  Dog.  I  fooled  around  with  the tune  more  and  more  until  at  last,  lo  and behold,  I  had    completed  my  first  piece  of  finished  music.  —  Duke  Ellington

40. The  creative  person  wants  to  be  a  know-it-all.  He  wants  to  know  about  all  kinds  of  thingsancient  history,  nineteenth  century  mathematics,  current  manufacturing  techniques,  hog  futures. Because  he  never  knows  when  these  ideas  might  come  together  to  form  a  new  idea.  It  may happen  six  minutes  later,  or  six  months,  or  six  years.  But  he  has  faith  that  it  will  happen. — Carl  Ally

41. When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling  you're nuts. - Larry Ellison