If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
— Peter Drucker
Superior Creativity And Innovation quotations
Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools.
They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
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.
If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.
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.
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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.
Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.
Creativity can solve almost any problem.
Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
When all think alike, then no one is thinking
Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.
I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset.
...A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.
Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing.
It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.
People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.
Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over time, the richer the cultural context in terms of providing multiple experimentation and creative competition, the more likely the successful survival of the society