food for thought: on Creativity

• “The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.”– Margaret J. Wheatley
  
  
• “The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of them.” – Linus Pauling
  
  
• “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.” – Isaac Newton
  
  
• “In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.” – Shunryu Suzuki
  
  
• “Originality is the art of concealing your source. Most of my ideas belonged to other people who didn’t bother to develop them.” – Thomas Edison
  
  
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
  
  
• "No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It's just that the others are behind the time." – Martha Graham
  
  
• “It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." – Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes
  
  
• “Don’t fear mistakes. There are none.” – Miles Davis
  
  
• “Opportunities multiply as they are seized." – Sun Tzu
  
  
• “I’ll try anything. I’ll even try Limburger cheese.” – Thomas Edison
  
  
• “Cynics do not create.” – Calvin Coolidge
  
  
• “In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur
  
  
• “A problem well-defined is half-solved.” – John Dewey
  
  
• “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” – John Maynard Keynes
  
  
• “The new hero is the innovator.” – Alvin Toffler
  
  
• “Most of the creative work done in the world gets done by ordinary people.” – Teresa Amabile
  
  
• “The labor-of-love aspect is important. The most successful scientists often are not the most talented, but the ones who are just impelled by curiosity. They’ve got to know what the answer is.” – Arthur Schawlow, Nobel-prize-winning physicist