| Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. | James Carswell |
| No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. | John Cassavetes |
| If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. | Cher |
| One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. | G.K. Chesterton |
| When the way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through. | I Ching |
| No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time steady eye. | Winston Churchill |
| It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. | Winston Churchill |
| Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world. | Winston Churchill |
| Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Music is the art of thinking with sounds. | Jules Combarie |
| No one travels so high as he who knows not where he is going. | Oliver Cromwell |
| I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. | Marie Curie |
| Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits. | Edward de Bono |
| It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. | Edward de Bono |
| There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. | Edward de Bono |
| Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned. | Edward de Bono |
| It is not enough to just do your best or work hard. You must know what to work on. | W. Edwards Deming |
| It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well. | Rene Descartes |
| Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. | John Dewey |
| The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. | Charles Dickens |
| Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour. | Peter Drucker |
| Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | Thomas Edison |
| The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them. | Albert Einstein |
| Imagination is more important than knowledge. | Albert Einstein |
| To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires a creative imagination and marks the real advances in science. | Albert Einstein |
| Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. | Albert Einstein |
| If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. | Albert Einstein |
| Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. | Albert Einstein. |
| Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? | T.S. Elliot |
| The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| People are disturbed, not by things, but by the views they take of them. | Epictetus |
| Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right. | Henry Ford |
| The more you think, the more time you have. | Henry Ford |
| In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art. | E.M. Forster |
| To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage. | Erich Fromm |
| Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. | Julius Frontinus (Highly respected engineer in Rome, 1st century A.D.) |
| The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office. | Robert Frost |
| Microsoft is a company that manages imagination. | Bill Gates |
| Persistence is the hard work that you do after you are tired of doing the hard work you already did . | Newt Gingrich |
| What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, that they may start of winning game. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not. | W. Gordon |
| To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to grow intellectually. | J.P. Guilford |
| Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through. | Robert M. Hayes |
| Children between the ages of two and seven are very imaginative. This is the best period for the development of imagination, creativity and thinking abilities. | Chiam Heng Keng |
| People change and forget to tell each other. | Lillian Hellman |
| A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| The profit of great ideas comes when you turn them into reality. | Tom Hopkins |
| Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. | Victor Hugo |
| What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. | Dean Inge |
| In the dim background of our mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. | William James |
| You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. | Steve Jobs |
| Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. | Samuel Johnson |
| He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. | Joseph Joubert |
| It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. | Nikos Kazantzakis |
| Ideas shape the course of history. | John Maynard Keynes |
| The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerilla wins if they do not lose. | Henry Kissinger |
| Creative novelty springs largely from the rearrangement of the existing knowledge, a rearrangement that is itself an addition to knowledge. | J. Kneller |
| The map is not the territory. | Alfred Korzbyski |
| An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. | Dr. Edwin Land |
| In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. | James Lowell |
| A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. | Charles M. Schwab |
| It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. | Thomas Macaulay |
| A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others. | Konosuke Matsushita |
| We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact. | Konosuke Matsushita |
| Life changes when we change. | Andrew Matthews |
| Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. | W. Somerset Maugham |
| I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. | Paul McCartney |
| Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has. | Margaret Mead |
| The obvious is always least understood. | Prince Metternich |
| Focus should be to encourage and develop creativity in all children without the ultimate goal being to make all children inventors, but rather to develop a future generation of critical thinkers. | Faraq Mousa |
| To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid. | Yaqui Mystic |
| If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. | Isaac Newton |
| Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. | Robert Olson |
| It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. | Alex Osborne |
| Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. | Louie Pasteur |
| The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. | Linus Pauling |
| The only joy in the world is to begin. | Cesare Pavese |
| Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. | Pablo Picasso |
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