“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
~ Oscar Wilde
“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
~ Linus Pauling
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
“Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
~ William James
“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.”
~ Rollo May
“An idea or practice is "spiritual" when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life.”
~ Robert C. Fuller
“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
~ Rita Mae Brown
“New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works. images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting.”
~ Peter Senge
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
“The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.”
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
