Quotes About Creativity

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius