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The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so. (Quote by - Thomas Troward)

Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. (Quote by - Carl Jung)

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: Only stand out of my light Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. (Quote by - John W. Gardner)

There's a way to do it bette find it. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)

In every work of genius, we recognize our once rejected thoughts. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. (Quote by - Albert von Szent-Gyorgy)

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. (Quote by - Frank Tyger)

Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart. (Quote by - Mencius)

The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause. (Quote by - Warren Bennis)

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. (Quote by - Edward de Bono)

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. (Quote by - Roger von Oech)

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways. (Quote by - M. Minsky)

M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. The incompetent never get in a position to destroy it. It is those who achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. (Quote by - F. M. Young)

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell )

Success is on the far side of failure. (Quote by - Thomas Watson Sr.)

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction. (Quote by - Lawrence Miller)

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. (Quote by - Heraclitus)

Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)

That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)

Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work. (Quote by - James Ogilvy)

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. (Quote by - Linus Pauling)

Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits (Quote by - Edward de Bono)

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