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Creating, Imagining, Innovating

Generating new and novel ideas; fluency, originality. Try a different way!

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
Pablo Picasso
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.
Anita Roddick, Founder/CEO, The Body Shop
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
There is nothing mysterious about originality, nothing fantastic. Originality is merely the step beyond.
Louis Danz
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
John Updike
An idea is a feat of association.
Robert Frost
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dr. Dale Turner
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
Julian Simon
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May
Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.
John Kao
I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don’t think that everybody is disciplined. I think that’s a rare commodity.
Al Hirschfield
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the largest number of creative reasons on its side.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
What is now proved was once imagined.
William Blake
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
Mary Caroline Richards
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall
The future is not a result of choice among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.
John Schaar
Art is a terrific vehicle because it unlocks kid’s imaginations, touches us in emotional ways, brings to life what might otherwise be abstract.
Ted Mitchell
A firm grounding in the arts teaches practical skills and such characteristics as self-discipline and critical thinking. The arts naturally embrace paradox and ambiguity; to study them is to learn flexible thinking. Those who have trained in an art form are more likely not only to grasp the nuances in real life, say the experts, but also to persevere in finding novel solutions to everyday problems.
Susan Gaines
We need people who can read and write. But what we really need is people who can not only read the instructions, but change them. They need to be able to think outside the lines.
Richard Gurin, CEO and President, Binney & Smith, Croyola Products
Insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
Albert Einstein
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