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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Daniel Bell

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Steve Jobs

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

Marilyn Ferguson

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Arthur Koestler

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.

Jonathan Ive

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plomer

The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

Adam Dell

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Harold S. Geneen

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Edwin Land

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

John Hockenberry

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Eric Hoffer

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Anna Eshoo

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

Iain McGilchrist

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

Adam Grant

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

Alexandra Adornetto

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

John Grierson

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

Marissa Mayer

There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.

Nancy Dubuc

Design is a powerful factor in communication between disciplines and stakeholders and can transform knowledge into creative, human-oriented solutions that can promote companies' and countries' competitive ability and foster innovation and growth.

Jens Martin Skibsted

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

John H. Johnson

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

Robert Metcalfe

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Alexander Pope

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Maria Konnikova

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

Nancy Duarte

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

Lisa Randall

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

Steven Johnson

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Rollo May

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

Margaret Heffernan

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology.

Frances Arnold

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Edmund Wilson

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Mason Cooley

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

William Pollard

Innovation, especially in America, is continuing at a breakneck pace, even in areas facing substantial political or regulatory headwinds. The advances in health care in particular are breathtaking - so many selfless souls are working to advance science, and this is heartening.

Michael Burry

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Carl Rogers

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Anne Sullivan

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Victor Pinchuk

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Antony Gormley

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plomer

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Twyla Tharp

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

Ken Robinson

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

Steven Sinofsky

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Biz Stone

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

Henry Petroski

The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.

Baba Kalyani

We are always looking ahead to anticipate what next, and our unique innovation architecture enables us to take an innovation-led approach to help our clients invent the future.

Pierre Nanterme

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

The role of innovation inside the company is so important. That's how we get growth, and there's no way to drive innovation without learning and change.

Doug McMillon

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Alain Dehaze

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Adeo Ressi

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

Heinrich Rohrer

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Stephen Covey

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Nawal El Saadawi

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Leo Burnett

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

Muhammad Yunus

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

Ken Robinson

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Jef I. Richards

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Steven Johnson

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Julia Cameron

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

Louise Wilson

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

Dean Kamen

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Leo Burnett