Quotes About Creativity And Invention

#1. Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.

Carisa Bianchi

#2. If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

Piaget

#3. My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can't push himself. He can't get better. He can't transform negatives into positives. He can't open his world to creativity and invention, or even progress.

Georges St-Pierre

#4. Discovery's friend is creativity

Phillip Gary Smith

#5. Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.

Katelyn S. Bolds

#6. Desperation is the father of invention.

Micheal Lee Nelson

#7. Sadness was the driver, the motor of his invention, the engine of his creativity.

Charles Yu

#8. In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

Christopher Langan

#9. Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. In the abstract art of cooking,
ingredients trump appliances,
passion supersedes expertise,
creativity triumphs over technique,
spontaneity inspires invention,
and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.

Bob Blumer

#11. Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

Austin Kleon

#12. Creativity is an integral part of our personality.

Jerzy Vetulani

#13. Section 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Founding Fathers

#14. There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post 'Sopranos' parodies or play your opponent's macaca moments. But in a 'net root' sense, it's pretty useless for getting someone elected.

John Ridley

#15. Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

Steve Krug

#16. Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

Chinua Achebe

#17. Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

Samuel R. Delany

#18. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

Mary Shelley

#19. There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

Henry Miller

#20. We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

Josef Albers

#22. If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.

Charles Stanley

#23. We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.

Tariq Ramadan

#24. We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?

Archibald Marwizi

#25. The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#26. God, do I love this man. The way he touches me, the way he kisses me. The cuts of his body and the intensity of his eyes. He is a drug that I have no way of resisting, bad for my soul, but so heartbreakingly perfect in its deliverance.

Alessandra Torre

#27. I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do something terrible, and a lot of the time it's about impotence. They feel powerless in the real world.

Lauren Beukes

#28. 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

#29. Every invention comes through anxiousness.

Rakesh Wadhwani

#30. I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

JoBeth Williams

#31. We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just trying. You don't need to make a big leap - you - need to take a thousand small steps.

James Jorash

#32. When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion.

T.F. Hodge

#33. Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#34. Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

Stephanie Vaughn

#35. The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a "wholesome personality" are inevitably their own.

Joel Henry Hildebrand

#36. The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

Nikola Tesla

#37. Commerce is the new green. Spend your money where your beliefs are.

S. Kelley Harrell

#38. The question: What color is my parachute?
The answer: blood red, brains gray, sludge black.

Jesse Petersen

#39. Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it is really important to both nurture and encourage this in children - and adults, too!

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#40. If love isn't embedded withing giving, then it would be best to never give at all, for love and giving is inseparable; they are one. Selfishness and self-gratification is not of love.

Aloy Ricketts

#41. If you're struggling to "think outside the box" remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

Ryan Lilly