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Creativity And Imagination Quotes About Thinking Outside The Box

The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J.K. Rowling

Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About Breaking Boundaries

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
Steven Pressfield

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Julia Cameron

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Frank Barron

The creative act is not a solitary process. It is a collaborative process. It is a process that involves the artist and the audience.
Terence McKenna

The creative process is a process of destruction. It is a process of breaking down the old and creating the new.
Unknown

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About Exploring New Ideas

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Lewis Carroll

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About Embracing The Unknown

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.
Abe Tannenbaum

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

The unknown is where creativity lives. It is not to be feared, it is to be embraced.
Anonymous

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About Taking Risks

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
Osho

Creativity is the power to act.
Ai Weiwei

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
Ken Robinson

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
Edward de Bono

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
Ken Robinson

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About The Power Of Imagination

Imagination is not just a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About The Importance Of Creativity

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Steve Jobs

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About The Connection Between Creativity And Problem-Solving

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
Steve Jobs

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
Carl Ally

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvy

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About The Role Of Imagination In Art

Imagination is the air of mind.
Philip James Bailey

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.
William Stevens Fielding

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry Miller

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About The Role Of Imagination In Science

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
Sir Ken Robinson

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.
Neil Armstrong

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About The Role Of Imagination In Literature

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.
Patricia A. McKillip

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
Terence McKenna

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About The Role Of Imagination In Everyday Life

Imagination is not just the starting point of creativity, it's the birthplace of possibility.
Unknown

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About Innovation

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Theodore Levitt

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter Drucker

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.
Steve Jobs

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About Originality

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

Originality is the best form of rebellion.
Mike Sasso

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Robertson Davies

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
Voltaire

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment.
Rollo May

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Thomas W. Higginson

Creativity And Imagination Quotes About Imagination As A Tool For Change

Imagination is the soil that brings dreams to life.
Unknown

Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity.
Richard Laurence Peterson

Imagination is the key to unlocking the door to endless possibilities.
Unknown

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.
James Cameron

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