To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Topic: Creativity, Imagination, Innovation, Perception
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Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
› Tony Robbins
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
› Eleanor Roosevelt
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
› Samuel Johnson
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
› Isaac Newton
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
› Francis Bacon
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
› Napoleon Hill
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
› William Arthur Ward
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
› Steve Jobs
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
› Peter Drucker
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
› William Faulkner
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.
› Henry Ford
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
› Victor Hugo
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
› Ayn Rand
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
› Plato
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
› Nathaniel Hawthorne
On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.
› Moliere
