Creative Thinking Quotes - Page 3

• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The more you think, the more time you have.

  Henry Ford

  Time, Work, Creativity

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• Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

  Ray Bradbury

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!". Book by Dr. Seuss, August 21, 1975.

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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  Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

  Leo Burnett

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

  George Nelson

  Thinking, Creative, Way

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• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

  Charles Mingus

  Creativity, Simple, Plain Language

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

  Elaine Dundon

  Thinking, Design, Creative

  Elaine DUNDON (2002). “Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas”, p.38, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in your imagination." She told me that thoughts were things and that I would become the thing I thought of most. This kind of empowerment is crucial to creative thinking.

  Joey Reiman

  Mother, Thinking, Play

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.141, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Thinking, Oxygen, Creative

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

  Mary Henle

  Passion, Creativity, Thinking

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• Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Passion, Thinking, Natural Talent

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

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• Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Believe, Thinking, Effort

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1948). “Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination”

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• You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one's path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest.
  Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.

  Anne LaBastille

  Good Life, Reflection, Opportunity

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• Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Creative, Facts

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• Want to know the secret behind The Secret? The Law of Attraction will not bring you abundance and prosperity for just thinking pleasant, positive thoughts. It is no cosmic mistake that the word "attraction" has the word "action" in it. Abundance is, in fact, the result of creative thinking and a lot of action. Much action, much prosperity, in other words. What are you waiting for?

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Mistake, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

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