Top 100 Quotes About Creativity And Innovation
#1. In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
Shimon Peres
#2. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.
Lawrence Lessig
#3. Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.
Chuck Green
#4. One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
Ken Robinson
#5. Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.
Robert Heller
#6. Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.
Tim Brown
#7. London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home for Starbucks and a significant gateway into Europe.
Howard Schultz
#8. The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.
Jane Pauley
#9. Creativity and Innovation produces better comics.
Jamal Igle
#10. While PANTONE 18-3224 Radiant Orchid, the captivating 2014 color of the year, encouraged creativity and innovation, Marsala enriches our mind, body and soul, exuding confidence and stability,
Leatrice Eiseman
#11. It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.
Lily Cole
#12. Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.
Noreena Hertz
#13. Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#14. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.
Brene Brown
#15. When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
Eric Betzig
#16. The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
Bob Iger
#17. By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation ... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.
Chin-Ning Chu
#18. What's the most significant barrier to creativity and innovation? Kevin thought about it for a minute and said, I don't know if it has a name, but honestly, it's the fear of introducing an idea and being ridiculed, laughed at, and belittled.
Brene Brown
#19. The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#20. Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.
Warren G. Bennis
#21. Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.
Pearl Zhu
#22. REAL success, satisfaction and joy has nothing to do with owning STUFF!
Tony Dovale
#23. An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.
Onyi Anyado
#24. Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.
Justine Bateman
#25. Management innovation has both hard elements such as process and metrics; and soft elements such as communication and culture.
Pearl Zhu
#26. As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
Max McKeown
#27. If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.
Max McKeown
#28. Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.
Ken Robinson
#29. An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.
Leatrice Eiseman
#31. It is the people who innovate that inspire, and innovation is not born of the status quo.
Michele Jennae
#32. The church should be the most innovative organization on the planet. We should be the first ones to be experimenting with new technology, ideas, and strategies. Sadly we've given our innovation away to places like Apple and our creativity to places like Disney.
Braden Pedersen
#33. Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.
Jim Hunt
#34. Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#35. Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked ideas have no value until they are implemented.
Alan Robinson
#36. Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.
Brene Brown
#37. Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.
Pearl Zhu
#38. There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
Brene Brown
#39. Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.
Pearl Zhu
#40. Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion.
Tony Dovale
#41. Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results.
Tony Dovale
#42. Shame breeds fear. It crushes our tolerance for vulnerability, thereby killing engagement, innovation, creativity, productivity, and trust.
Brene Brown
#43. Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.
Ron Kind
#44. The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset
Michael Harris
#45. Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.
Joe Biden
#46. The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.
Richie Norton
#47. Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
Barbara Corcoran
#48. Creative leadership can be described as "adaptability meets agility," and "innovation meets principles.
Pearl Zhu
#49. Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.
Pearl Zhu
#50. I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#51. High Performance Teams create cultures of caring, connection, commitment, collaboration and clear consistent communication
Tony Dovale
#52. The Producers Guild represents the creativity, innovation and dynamism that sets our industry apart from all others.
Jon Feltheimer
#53. We are a species driven by innovation and creativity. The world is full of information and any number of things to learn and discover at any given time, so if you are bored, it's your choice. As such, you're not allowed to complain.
Ginger Voight
#54. Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.
Pearl Zhu
#55. If you want to express your creativity, then don't choose a path where someone else tells you what to do and how to do it. Choose a path where creativity is rewarded, not punished.
Steve Pavlina
#56. A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal.
Tony Dovale
#57. The reason most of your staff are asleep and disengaged, is because you have boring, and bully managers, and no REAL Leaders to inspire and unleash potential.
Tony Dovale
#58. Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.
Pearl Zhu
#59. The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.
Pearl Zhu
#60. None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.
Pearl Zhu
#61. Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.
Shawn Lukas
#62. Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.
Max McKeown
#63. Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.
Max McKeown
#64. Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.
Pearl Zhu
#65. The very nature of open innovation is to take advantage of all sources of creativity in a more open way and make a leap of innovation management to the next level.
Pearl Zhu
#66. Creativity is an input to innovation and change is the output from innovation.
Braden Kelley
#67. I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.
Dale J. Stephens
#68. Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace.
Tony Dovale
#69. Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.
Jay Abraham
#70. America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well.
Benjamin Carson
#71. It is the satisfaction of doing it for yourself and motivating others to work with you in bringing it about. It is about the fun, innovation, creativity with the rewards being far greater than purely financial.
Richard Branson
#72. To reignite creativity, innovation, and learning, leaders must rehumanize education and work. This means understanding how scarcity is affecting the way we lead and work, learning how to engage with vulnerability, and recognizing and combating shame.
Brene Brown
#73. First and foremost is that creativity is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than from the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses. This
Walter Isaacson
#74. Be courageous to listen to what you don't want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.
Pearl Zhu
#75. Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.
Pearl Zhu
#76. The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.
Ray Stata
#77. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
Brene Brown
#78. My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.
Howard Gardner
#79. Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.
Joel Salatin
#80. Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes
David Allen
#81. Be creative, be innovative, consume what everyone consumes and make it fresh!
Kevin Focke
#82. To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling in the right direction
Pearl Zhu
#83. What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
Adam Gopnik
#84. REAL Leadership is the building of belief, that activates and aligns the full potential, for a meaningful cause
Tony Dovale
#85. Yes, there can be no innovation, learning, or creativity without failure. But failing is painful. It fuels the "shouldas and couldas," which means judgment and shame are often lying in wait
Brene Brown
#86. To create different work, one needs new tools and materials
Natasha Tsakos
#87. Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
Pearl Zhu
#88. Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.
Alex Bogusky
#89. Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#90. Your UNconscious mind has more power, influence and control over your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices, than your conscious mind.
Tony Dovale
#91. Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.
Amy Dacyczyn
#92. Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.
Criss Jami
#93. Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.
Max McKeown
#94. Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity.
Tony Dovale
#95. Innovation is always a product of individual innovators, a rare and dynamic breed not always appealing to the millions who depend on their creativity for their own comfort, health, and security.
George Gilder
#96. A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.
Tony Dovale
#97. New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.
Ratan Tata
#98. All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.
Joline Godfrey
#99. Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.
Ken Robinson
#100. An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.
Peter Drucker
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