"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
Pablo Picasso
100 Top-Notch Quotes About Creativity
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
Mary Lou Cook
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"The great discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently. "
Ira Erwin
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"The best way to get a great idea is to get lots of ideas."
Linus Carl Pauling
(February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists in any field of the 20th century.
"Many ideas grow better when they are transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
(August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century.
"There is nothing stronger than all the world and that is an idea whose time has come."
Victor-Marie Hugo
(26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea."
Thomas Jefferson
(April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). Jefferson was one of the most influential Founding Fathers, known for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States.
"The emperor of the future will be the emperor of ideas."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
(30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership
of the United Kingdom during the Second World War (WWII). He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as prime minister twice (1940-1945 and 1951-1955). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer, and an artist. To date, he is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one we have."
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"If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person."
Ralph Johnson Bunche
(August 7, 1903)– December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the history of the Prize.
"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."
Benjamin Disraeli
(21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was the country's first and thus far only Prime Minister who was born Jewish.