Be Creative, Be Innovative.
Be Creative, Be Innovative. Innovation and creativity are cornerstones of business. Success can be defined by the ability to step back from a problem and reimagine it to find new, original solutions.
If you take a look throughout history, the businesses that embrace innovation and creativity stand out as those that haven’t just added to the game but instead reinvented it. Below are some of my favourite quotes:
Creativity
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. - Albert Einstein
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try - Dr. Seuss
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong - Joseph Chilton Pierce
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have - Maya Angelou
The world is but a canvas to the imagination - Henry David
The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good sense’ - Pablo Picasso
You see things, and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were, and I say, ‘Why not? - George Bernard Shaw
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected - William Plomer
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity - Charles Mingus
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun - Mary Lou Cook
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Innovation
George Bernard Shawn would say about progress (innovation) “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.”
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear - Vincent Van Gogh
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind - A. von Szent-Gyorgyi
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore - Anonymous
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail - R. Emerson
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation - T. Levitt
It’s tough when markets change, and your people within the company don’t - Harvard Business Review
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got - Albert Einstein.
Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner - Tao Te Ching
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be - D. Adams