Creative thinking may simply mean the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.— Rudolph Flesch
Dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied, we become obsolete.— J. Willard Marriott, Jr.
I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo.— John Foster Dulles
The most damaging phrase in the English language is: “We’ve always done it this way”.— Admiral Grace Hopper
Whoever invented the first wheel was smart. Whoever invented the other three was a genius.— Sid Caesar
Many of my best inventions came from taking the creative but misdirected ideas of others and making them work.— Thomas Edison
There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to follow them through to reality.— Seth Godin
The innovator is that creative maverick who is willing to do whatever it takes to make the great idea a working reality.— Michael Leboeuf
We can do more than imagine, we can create. We can do more than create, we can innovate.— Vince Pfaff
Those who dream by night awake to find it was vanity. But the dreamers of day are dangerous; they may act out their dreams with open eyes to make them possible.— T.E. Lawrence
The world needs dreamers, and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.— Sara Ban Breathnach
Someone scribbles a wild idea on the back of a napkin. Or dreams an impossible dream over coffee at their kitchen table. This is exactly how many of the world’s most successful ideas and enterprises still get their start.— Trust Your Crazy Ideas
Great deeds and great thoughts often have a ridiculous beginning. The ideas for great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.— Albert Camus
Your dreams are not meant to put you to sleep, but to alert and arouse you to your immense possibilities.— David Phillips
Every day, thousands of ideas, impulses, hunches and intuitions race through your brain. Some are pure genius. Give them the red light long enough to at least write them down.— Ralph Ford
A hunch is a creativity trying to tell you something. It’s the voice of invention calling you forward.— Frank Capra
We should see dreaming as one of our responsibilities, rather than an alternative to one.— Mary Engelbreit
The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.— Margaret E. Sangster
Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.— Robert S. Weider
A good explorer knows that looking for ideas is like prospecting for gold. If you look in the same old places as everyone else, you’ll find tapped-out veins.— Roger Von Oech
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best leaders are not interested in promoting their own ideas, but in finding the best ideas. They are not interested in having their own way, but in finding the best way.— Dan Zadra
Leadership today is less about what we know and more about what we’re willing to discover.— Diane Branson
If the future is to remain open and free, we have to have people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of worked-out systems, whether they be traditional ones from the past or blueprints of the future. — Margaret Mead
Today’s leader must have the spirit of adventure – the pioneer spirit which blazes new trails.— Mary Parker Follett
Every company needs torchbearers. These are the people who embrace new ideas and champion the charge to have them implemented. — Rob Gilbert
Pioneers are special people. ‘First’ is always difficult. We don’t know that things can be done, that dreams can be fulfilled, that great accomplishments can be realized until somebody takes that first step.— Geraldine Neckiman
A frontier is never just a place; it is a time and a way of life. Frontiers pass, but they endure in their people. — Hal Borland
The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality, the opening of new frontiers.— Arthur Koestler
Bring in lots of crazy-sounding ideas and entertain them royally. One of them may be king.— Craig Dunn
Write down one idea every day. In six months you’ll have more ideas than most people have in a lifetime.— Breakthrough Strategies
Ideas are like little fish. Throw thousands out in the water. Only a handful will survive, but that is enough.— Unknown
The entrepreneur finds a need and fills it; the innovator anticipates or creates a need and fills it.— Denis Waitley
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.— George Bernard Shaw
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our lives.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
If you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
— Alice Walker
Just think of something that would be wonderful if it were only possible – and then set out to make it possible.
— Armand Hammer
To be human is to be creative. You don’t have to go outside yourself to find creativity – you already have it. It lives in your heart and mind in every moment of every day.
— Sandra Magasandra
The common gift of humanity is that we are all hard-wired to solve problems by creating new solutions.
— John P. Kotter
The future is made in the present. What will you do today that will matter tomorrow?
— Ralph Marston
Your brain is not a museum for the past, or a lumber room for the present; it is a laboratory for the future.
— John Frederick Fuller
The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
— Goethe
Start with the end in mind. Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. We aren’t stuck with the present.
— David Schwartz
Believe in your ability to visualize and create the future. That’s what leaders do. That is our job
— Mark Miller
The future is not some place we are going to, but a place we are creating. The paths to it are not found, they are made.
— Jane Garvey
For the first time in all time, a living creature understands its origin and can undertake to design its future.
— Robert Sinsheimer
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
— Charles F. Kettering
There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and change, and achievement.
— Alan Cohen
The passion to change and innovate will continue to distinguish a market leader from a follower.
— Steve Jobs
Change before you have to. Willingness to adapt and change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
— Jack Welch
The true innovator welcomes new ideas. He or she is flexible and adaptable and prepared to rearrange his/her thinking.
— A.J. Cropley
Businessmen go down with their business because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change.
— Henry Ford
Not all organizations adapt equally well to the environment within they grow. Many, like the dinosaur, remain unchanged in a changing world.
— Charles Handy
We are living in a time of unprecedented change. Companies that resist change will lose; companies that embrace change will thrive.
— Mark David
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
— Charles Darwin
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
— Ralph Nader
Perform one exceptional act of customer courtesy each day. Multiply it by everyone in your organization. Such is the stuff of revolutions.
— Tom Peters
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
— Belva Davis
Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again.
— Walt Disney
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
— Golda Meir