Enjoy these splashes of inspiration
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the Things That Could Go Wrong.’”
Marianne Williamson
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
General Erick Shinseki
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London
“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.”
Picasso
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything.”
George Lois
“Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one’s face.”
James Finley
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
Helen Keller
“Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.”
Thomas Disch
“Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.”
Jack Canfield
“When trust gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.”
David Armistead
“You miss 100% of the shots you never take!”
Unknown
“Don’t stumble over something behind you.”
Seneca
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”
Picasso
“In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.”
Deepak Chopra
“We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than controlled, confining, and normative. In short, we must UNSHACKLE THE HUMAN BRAIN and exploit its productive potential.”
Karl Albrecht
“Out there is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it. You’ve got one option – to shoot first”
Gary Hamel
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
Charles Mingus
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
John Steinbeck
“Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.”
Thomas J. Watson
“The mind is like a garden, plant flowers, you get flowers. Plant weeds, you get weeds. Plant nothing, you get weeds.”
Unknown
“Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough. They are there to keep out the other people.”
Randy Pausch
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
John R. Wooden
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
M. Scott Peck
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
Frank Zappa
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”
Edward deBono
“Challenge everything, assume nothing.”
Sergio Zyman
“Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.”
Thomas Edison
“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.”
Rupert Murdoch
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head almost nothing.”
Marc Chagall
“They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.”
Charlie Parker
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch
“Every arrow that hits the bull’s eye is the result of one hundred misses.”
Proverb
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Daringly original content truly perseveres.”
Jen Wiringer
“Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.”
James Bertrand
“Only the humble improve.”
Wynton Marsalis
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
Marshall Lyautey
“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember: Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”
Anonymous
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
“If the railroad companies had realized that they were in the transportation business and not in the railroad business, we’d all be flying around on Union Pacific Airways. “
Unknown
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
Erich Fromm
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
Abraham Lincoln
“All progress is due to the unreasonable person.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. “
John Cage
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”
adidas mission statement
“Growth and comfort seldom ride the same horse.”
Unknown
“One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What would have drawn a “wow” fifteen years ago won’t draw a yawn today.”
Steve Wynn
“You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.”
Edward deBono
“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system”
Machiavelli
“You can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark but not an adult who is afraid of the light.”
Plato
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest your reap, but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected”
William Plomer
“If the rate of change on the outside is greater than the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”
Jack Welch
“If you see a snake, just kill it. Don’t appoint a committee on snakes.”
Ross Perot
“Man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.”
Chinese Proverb
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who couldn’t hear the music.”
Unknown