77 Inspiring Reflections of Creativity
| 1. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs | 
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| 2. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” - Maya Angelou |  |
| 3. “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” - John Maynard Keynes |  |
| 4. “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” - Albert Einstein |  |
| 5. “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” - Johann Wolfgang Goethe |  |
| 6. “The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. That is why many of the earthly miracles have had their genesis in humble surroundings.” - Nikola Tesla |  |
| 7. “People only see what they're prepared to see.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson |  |
| 8. “Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” - Morihei Ueshiba |  |
| 9. “Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.” - Mark Twain |  |
| 10. “Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.” - Archimedes |  |
| 11. “Creativity takes courage.” - Henri Matisse |  |
| 12. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” - Henry David Thoreau |  |
| 13. “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” - Socrates |  |
| 14. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” - Oscar Wilde |  |
| 15. “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” - Sun Tzu |  |
| 16. “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.” - Bill Gates |  |
| 17. “Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” - Vincent van Gogh |  |
| 18. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw |  |
| 19. “A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.” - Marilyn vos Savant |  |
| 20. “Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.” - Miyamoto Musashi |  |
| 21. “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” - Howard Aiken |  |
| 22. “Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.” - Ludwig von Mises |  |
| 23. “You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” - Wayne Gretzky |  |
| 24. “I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.” - Niccolò Machiavelli |  |
| 25. "One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.” - Henry Ford |  |
| 26. “Big results require big ambitions.” - Heraclitus |  |
| 27. “I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” - Charles Darwin |  |
| 28. “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” - Alan Turing |  |
| 29. “All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.” - Albert Camus |  |
| 30. “The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.” - Douglas Engelbart |  |
| 31. “An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.” - Charles Dickens |  |
| 32. “To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” - Thomas Edison |  |
| 33. “Kowalski was always right, and never afraid. He never wondered, he never doubted. His ego was very secure. And he had the kind of brutal agressiveness that I hate. I'm afraid of it. I detest the character. (his feelings about one of his most famous characters, Stanley Kowalski from 'A Streetcar Named Desire')” - Marlon Brando |
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| 34. “The talent is in the choices.” - Robert De Niro |  |
| 35. “I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.” - Buckminster Fuller |  |
| 36. “Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such. Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that.” - Steve Wozniak |  |
| 37. “An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.” - Pablo Picasso |  |
| 38. “The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.” - Michelangelo |  |
| 39. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo da Vinci |  |
| 40. “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” - Salvador Dali |  |
| 41. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” - Marie Curie |  |
| 42. “Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” - Niels Bohr |  |
| 43. “The secret of getting things done is to act.” - Dante Alighieri |  |
| 44. “The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. ... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.” - Richard Feynman |  |
| 45. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” - Stephen King |  |
| 46. “No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” - Ansel Adams |  |
| 47. “Suddenly, the familiar view of our surroundings is transformed in a strange, delightful, or alarming way: it appears to us in a new light, takes on a special meaning.” - Albert Hofmann |  |
| 48. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald |  |
| 49. “Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.” - Edward de Bono |  |
| 50. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” - Friedrich Nietzsche |  |
| 51. “A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.” - Frank Capra |  |
| 52. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” - Aristotle |  |
| 53. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” - Erich Fromm |  |
| 54. “The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. We must have order, allocating to each thing it's proper place and giving to each thing is due according to it's nature.” - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |  |
| 55. “Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.” - Herodotus |  |
| 56. “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” - Joan Miro |  |
| 57. “Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.” - Antoni Gaudi |  |
| 58. “Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity.” - Dorothy Draper |  |
| 59. “Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.” - Masaru Ibuka |  |
| 60. “Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.” - George Orwell |  |
| 61. “I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.” - Jonathan Swift |  |
| 62. “Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero |  |
| 63. “He conquers who endures.” - Aulus Persius Flaccus |  |
| 64. “No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.” - Claude Monet |  |
| 65. “A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” - Charles F. Kettering |  |
| 66. “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” - Peter Drucker |  |
| 67. “I seem to have been like a child playing on the seashore, finding new and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.” - Sir. Isaac Newton |  |
| 68. “He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances” - David Hume |  |
| 69. “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” - Victor Hugo |  |
| 70. “An idea is salvation by imagination.” - Frank Lloyd Wright |  |
| 71. “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.” - Edgar Allan Poe |  |
| 72. “Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.” -Chanakya |  |
| 73. “Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.” - T. S. Eliot |
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| 74. “I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.” - Charlie Chaplin |  |
| 75. “Doubt is the father of invention.” - Galileo Galilei |  |
| 76. “Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.” - Anna Freud |  |
| 77. “If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.” - Lao Tzu |  |
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I love number 23, you only get one shot at life and this is it. Don't waste your life avoiding things, they will be your only regrets.
Awesome Collection! Thanks
I really like Nr 38. Michelangelo : The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms;
“Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.” - Ludwig von Mises
I like this one. Good collection..!
Thanks for your efforts/contributions.
Imagination is as universal as memory...all of us are gifted with creative talent. -Alex F. Osborn
This is the greatest compilation I have ever come across! These 77 inspirational quotes should be introduced to all design students in their 1st year of study.
Great list of quotes, thank you for sharing. I like Frank Capra's quote, "A hunch is creativity telling you to do something"
I like No.25 - "One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.” - Henry Ford
great words...
i love jobs ! great man
they are real creative