Creative Environment
"Creative ideas reside in people mind's but are trapped by fear of rejection.  Create a judgment-free environment and you'll unleash a torrent of creativity." Alex Osborn

"You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it." Joni Mitchell

"In a complex system such as an organization, we can create change by making a small yet significant difference at one point, that reverberates through all the feedback systems to make the larger kinds of differences the client is seeking." Gregory Bateson

"The very idea that there is another idea is something gained." Richard Jefferies

"The world is but a canvas for our imaginations." Henry David Thoreau

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge, Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein

"Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer." Marilyn Monroe

"Its not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin

Creative Process
"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."  Dee Hock

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."  Sir Cecil Beaton

"Creativity is not an escape from disciplined thinking. It is an escape with disciplined thinking." Jerry Hirshberg

"Rather than denying problems, focus inventively, intentionally on what solutions might look or feel like. Our mind is meant to generate ideas that help us escape circumstantial traps - if we trust it to do so." Marsha Sinetar

"Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what weknow in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to thinkcreatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take forgranted." George Kneller

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail." Abraham Maslow

"Creative thinking may simply mean the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things they way they have always been done."  Rudolph Flesch

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge."  Daniel J. Boorstin

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." John Ruskin

"All the works of mankind have their origin in creative fantasy."  Carl Jung
Creative Person
"As human beings, our greatest achievement lies not in remaking the world, but in remaking ourselves."  Mohandas K. Ghandi

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." Maya Angelou

"People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter.  They never talk about the practice, practice, practice."  Ted Williams

"A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"Creativity is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion is a natural function of the body." John Kao

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to on creating oneself endlessly." Henri Bergson

"The roots of innovation lie in taking seriously and developing something which nobody else has paid attention to and which the rest of the universe might be inclined to ignore." Howard Gardner

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." Joseph Campbell

"Creativity: a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual." Arthur Koestler

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud

"Conditions for creativity are: to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born everyday, to feel a sense of self." Erich Fromm

"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, directions, missions, callings." Abraham Maslow

"When you get to the end of all the light you know it's time to step into the unknown. Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."  Edward Teller

"To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act." Margaret Mead

Creative Product
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." Charles Mingus

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." Albert Einstein

"One hundred percent of the shots I don't make don't go in." Wayne Gretzky

"All truth passes through three stages.  First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self evident." Arthur Schopenhauer