Innovation & Creativity

Category Innovation

Here are some quotes related to innovation along with the authors’ names:

“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.” – Alfred North Whitehead

“Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.” – William J. Cameron

“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 is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” – Theodore Levitt

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation, in its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.” – J. K. Rowling

“It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago but will soon be out of date.” – Roger von Oech

“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” – William James

“When all think alike, then no one is thinking.” – Walter Lippmann

“I am looking for a lot of people who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.” – Henry Ford

“If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it.” – Gordon MacKenzie

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

“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.” – Brené Brown

“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.” – Charles Kettering¹

“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” – William Pollard²

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship… the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” – Peter Drucker

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

“The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.” – Bob Iger

“Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and develop anew where few have dared to go.” – Steven Jeffes

“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat.” – Steve Jobs

“Innovation is the calling card of the future.” – Anna Eshoo

“Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices.” – Lewis Duncan

“The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.” – Marty Neumeier

“To stay ahead in innovation, look at horizontal industries and the ones leading your current industry, someone is always doing something new.” – Jeff Butler

Category Creativity

Here are some quotes related to creativity along with the authors’ names:

“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” – Albert Einstein

“Creativity is just connecting things.” – Steve Jobs

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” – John Cleese

“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.” – Bruce Garrabrandt

“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” – Mary Lou Cook

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula Le Guin

“Creativity is the language we use to communicate the urgency of our dreams for a better future.” – Audre Lorde

“Our dreams may seem impossible, but our creativity can turn them into reality.” – Malala Yousafzai

“The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.” – Virginia Woolf

“The power of our dreams and the creativity we employ can break the chains of injustice and oppression.” – Desmond Tutu

“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” – Pablo Picasso

“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse.’” – Arthur Rimbaud

“Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.” – Max Ernst

“Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working.” – Henri Matisse

“Creativity is our most powerful tool to shape the world we want to live in.” – Isra Hirsi

“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.” – Ira Glass

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

“Imagination creates reality.” – Richard Wagner