Ideas- The Fuel Of Progress

And Foundation Of Our Future.

The book has the following sections.

Stirring Your Creative Juices

Humour is Serious Business

Don't Listen To The Experts - Be One

Getting Serious About Creativity

Creative Success Is Team Sport

Creative Courage

Taking The Creative Plunge

Thinking The Unthinkable

Passion and Profits

Creating The Future

Each section has several interesting quotations/questions which serve as inspiration or triggers for generating new ideas.

Here are a few I liked.

Looking Within: How do I define success?

"Follow what you love and it will take you where you want to go" - Natalie Goldberg

"Doubting your doubts removes the imaginary obstacles that we construct."

"We grow by dealing with new ideas, new people, new experience." - Dr Oakley Ray

"Most folks will be as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln

"It takes ignorance to do new-to-the-world new ideas. Ignorance is as big a factor as courage - ignorance of how difficult whatever it is you are trying to do. " - Guy Kawasaki

"Creativity and criticism don't mix."

"Humour is the great lubricant of teamwork."

"Laughter doesn't mean that people are goofing off, but rather enjoying what they are doing."

"Don't let ideas die of neglect."

"Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently"

"Worry is the misuse of imagination." (I love this one. Brilliant)

"Creative people often don't need to be managed. They need to be inspired by a lofty vision."

"It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a person's faith in themselves." - George Bernard Shaw

"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing." - Will Rogers

"Behind every great idea are people lined up saying "it won't work."

"An idea in a safe is like a silver dollar buried in the ground. Both are safe, but neither produces anything." - Dr. Myron. S. Allen

"You build a reputation on what you intend to do." - Liz Smith

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

Ask "What would people buy today if it were available?"