Quotes About Creativity

To stand apart in these overcrowded markets, you need to be creative through value innovation.

In this way, blue ocean strategy makes sense of the strategic paradox many organizations face: the more they focus on coping with the competition, and striving to match and beat their advantages, the more they ironically tend to look like the competition. To which blue ocean strategy would respond, stop looking to the competition. Value-innovate and let the competition worry about you.

your offering needs to stand out as never before.

By looking across the market boundary of theater, Cirque du Soleil also offered new noncircus factors, such as a story line and, with it, intellectual richness, artistic music and dance, and multiple productions. These factors, entirely new creations for the circus industry, are drawn from the alternative live entertainment industry of theater.

Value innovation is not the same as technology innovation.

the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy. Value innovation, not innovation per se

The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.

blue oceans were seldom the result of technological innovation per se;

Most blue oceans are created from within, not beyond, red oceans of existing industries

A rising call for creative new solutions. Just look at a broad swath of industries that matter fundamentally to who we are: health care

Value innovation, not technology innovation, is what opens up commercially compelling new markets.

I have found that when players break their habitual patterns, they can greatly extend the limits of their own style and explore subdued aspects of their personality.

love,love,love...that is the soul of genius

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

Poetry is the human soul entire Squeezed like a lemon or a lime, Drop by drop into atomic words".

The prerequisite for writing is having something to say.

Why did white folks think you could live on nothing but art? Strange! Too strange! Too strange!

Good evening, daddy! I know you've heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace. –"Boogie: 1 A.M." by Langston Hughes

Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers. Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too rough fingers Of the world.

Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit!

Anne burst out, "You know, I think I'd like to paint you." Michael said, "Oh, I say now, that would be lovely! He's so utterly Negro.

What right has anyone to say That I Must throw out pieces of my heart For pay?

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose

We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.