Quotes About Creativity

Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.

Creativity requires a willingness to look stupid.

If you combine your thoughts with the thoughts of others, you will come up with thoughts you've never had!

Leadership is responsible. Losing is unacceptable. Passion is unquenchable. Creativity is essential. Quitting is unthinkable. Commitment is unquestionable. Victory is inevitable.

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all." —Donald M. Nelson

You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Henry Ford, who said, "Don't find a fault; find a remedy.

The hero is the one with ideas.

The more you engage in good thinking, the more good thoughts you will continue to think. As playwright Victor Hugo asserted, An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas.

Creative people don't avoid failure. They see it as a friend. They know that if they are to experiment, innovate, and create, they will fail. They embrace risk.

Charlie Brower said, "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow." Negative environments kill thousands of great ideas every minute.

Charlie Brower said, A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. Negative environments kill thousands of great ideas every minute.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Management expert Tom Peters gives a perspective on this. He suggests, "Don't rock the boat. Sink it and start over." If you desire to be creative and do something really innovative, that's sometimes what it takes. You must destroy the old to create something new. You cannot allow yourself to be paralyzed by the idea of change.

When you hear someone say, Now this is just off the top of my head, expect dandruff. The only people who believe thinking is easy are those who don't habitually engage in it.

Effective leaders....always rise to a challenge. That's one of the things that separates winners from whiners.....Walton rose above it by solving his problems with creativity and tenacity. Anyone who expects the road to be easy will continually find himself in trouble.

Leaders recognize the abilities in people and work fluidly with them. They are able to mentor people with different talents, temperaments, and styles. While average leaders try to lead everyone the same way, level 4 leaders lead everyone differently. That takes creativity and confidence.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date

The desires to innovate, to improve, to create, and to find a better way are all leadership characteristics.

Good ideas must be shared, improved upon with the help of other good thinkers, and then they must be implemented and acted upon.

Creativity is being able to see what everybody else has seen and think what nobody else has thought so you can do what nobody else has done.

Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art, identifies this reluctance. He calls it resistance. He writes, "There is a force resisting the beautiful things in the world, and too many of us are giving in.

The only thing worse than not having a way to capture great ideas, and thus missing them, is capturing a bad idea and trying to make it work.