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I Geek for Creativity (aka TweetRightBrain)
These are some of my favorite quotes on creativity, innovation, ideation, right brain play, imagination, curiosity, etc.
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“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.” ~ Oscar Wilde
?"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"The man who has no imagination has no wings." ~ Muhammad Ali
“The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” ~ Edwin H. Land
?"The value of an idea lies in the using of it." ~ Thomas Edison
?"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time." ~ John Stuart Mill
?"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact." ~William Shakespeare
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” ~ Mary Lou Cook
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” ~ Charles Mingus
"Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil." ~ Bishop Reginald Heber
“Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” - Lewis Carroll
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." Plato
"Ideas are easy. Solutions are difficult." ~ Denny McCorkle
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." ~ Samuel Johnson
“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” ~ Alfred Bernhard Nobel
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together." ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” ~ Albert Einstein
"For me, singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth." ~ Edith Piaf
“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” Bo Bennett
"A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." ~ Thomas Edison
“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.” Gilbert K Chesterton
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Pablo Picasso
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Albert Einstein