Quotes About Inventiveness

The Bay, they got their own sound, they don't try to be like nobody. They smooth out there.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. As quoted in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)

I suggest that the emergence of descriptive language is at the root of the human power of imagination, of human inventiveness, and therefore the emergence of world 3.

As human beings, we are resilient, inventive, and exuberant. The fact that our organizations are not suggests that in some important ways, they are less human than we are. Ironically, it seems that human-built organizations have scant room for exactly those things that make us furless bipeds special—things like courage, intuition, love, playfulness, and artistry.

There's nothing in his own life that contains this inventiveness, this style of being free. The music speaks to unexpressed longing or frustration, a sense that he's denied himself an open road, the life of the heart celebrated in the songs.

Perowne sometimes wonders if, in his youth, he could ever have guessed that he would one day father a blues musician... But is there a lifetime's satisfaction in twelve bars of three obvious chords? Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world... as Daisy says, like a Jane Austen novel... There's nothing in his own life that contains this inventiveness, this style of being free.

Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're doing. They tend to be 26 years old and highflying. They often have a very childlike mind, with some naivete.

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

The best solution is very much the least expensive and most creative.

In MIT lore, it's generally believed that this haphazard combination of different disciplines, thrown together in a large reconfigurable building, led to chance encounters and a spirit of inventiveness that generated breakthroughs at a fast pace, innovating topics as diverse as Chomsky grammars, Loran navigational radars, and video games, all within the same productive postwar decades.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

Candler—mixed with the secret formula was. . . IMAGINATION!

It struck me how lacking in imagination we are:

So I have, accordingly, except for eight years, been self-employed.

We can make two predictions, though. First, the more human inventiveness we encourage, the better that's likely to work out for us.

What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.