Creators on Creating

© Idea Champions, 2011

“What is now proved was once

only

imagined.” – William Blake

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“A pile of rocks

ceases to be a rock pile

when somebody

contemplates it with the idea of a

cathedral in mind.”– Antoine Saint-Exupery

Steve Jobs

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

- Steve Jobs

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“I am looking for a lot of people who have an infinite capacity to not knowwhat can't be done.”

– Henry Ford

“The creation of something new is not accomplished

by the intellect, but by the PLAY

instinct arising from inner necessity.

The creative mind plays with the

object it loves.” – Carl Jung

“Now that we have met with paradox, we have some hope of making progress.”

– Niels Bohr

“Microsoft is never more than two years away from failure.”

- Bill Gates

“A man is

not idle

because he

is absorbed

in thought.

There is a

visible labor

and there is

an invisible

labor.” – Victor Hugo

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind

awakens its likeness in

another mind.”– Thomas Carlyle

“There is a vitality, a life force, that is translated to you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and will be lost.” – Martha Graham

“Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of

foolishness when they

are just

produced.” – Alfred North Whitehead

“Genius is infinite

painstaking.”

Michelangelo

“Not everything that can be counted, counts; not everything that counts can be counted.”- Albert Einstein

“The act of creation begins first of all as an

act of destruction.”

– Pablo Picasso

“The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.”

– Thomas Carlyle

“Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.”

- John Lennon

Confusion is a

word we’ve invented for an order that is not yet understood.

– Henry Miller

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together, go to the making of genius. Love, Love, LoveLove, Love, Love. That is the soul of genius.” – Mozart

Intuition will tell the

thinking mind where to look

next. – Jonas Salk

“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.” - Miles Davis

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.” – Rollo May

- Linus Pauling

“The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.”

“It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” - Dizzy Gillespie

“Some people have a

way with

words. Others

not have way.”

– Steve Martin

“If you lose the power to

laugh,you lose the power to think.”

– Clarence Darrow

“Security is mostly a

superstition. Life is either

a daring adventure or

nothing.”

– Helen Keller

“Few people think more than two or three times a year. I’ve made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”

- G.B. Shaw

“99% of success is built on failure.”

– Charles Kettering

“Without a deadline, baby, I

wouldn’t do nothing.”

- Duke Ellington

“We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.”

– Deepak Chopra

“You can

only be as

good as you dare to be bad.

”– John Barrymore

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“No idea is so

outlandis

h that it should not

be considered.” – Winston Churchill

“The greatest invention

in the world is the mind

of a child.”

-Thomas Edison

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