Best 26 Creativity, Invention, Problem Solving Audio Quotes

“ Listen to anyone with an original idea, no matter how absurd it may sound at first. If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.” — William McKnight

“ We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories
and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.” — Ananda Coomaraswamy

“ So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and
puttering.” — Brenda Ueland

“ Creativity is seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you
can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.” — Michele Shea

“ As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better, no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems” — Edward de Bono

“ Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony of proportion is rapidly seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“ Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly” – Lauren Bacall.

“ The ability to learn faster than the competition is often the only sustainable competitive advantage a company can have” – Arie de Geus

“ In the long history of humankind (and animalkind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin.

“ Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress” – Theodore Levitt

“ Instead of pouring knowledge into people’s heads, we need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so that we can see the world in a new way.” – J Brown.

“ Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It’s too high! Come to the edge! And they came, and he pushed, and they flew.” – Christopher Logue

“ Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you and just before you realise what’s wrong with it.” – Anonymous

“ The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ Some people will like me and some won’t. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I’ll know that the people who like me, like me.” – Hugh Prather

“ If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau

“ Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head.” – Mark Twain

“ Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People’s needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.” – Raymond Kurzweil

“ Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.” – Franklin Jones

“ Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.” – Oliver Holmes

“ There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.” — Edward de Bono

“ There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.” — Martha Graham

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

“ It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.” — Edward de Bono

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

“ When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.” – Linda Naiman

“ Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.” — Nolan Bushnell