Creativity Quotes

Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.

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"Creativity flourishes in environments where questions are welcomed and failure is expected."
Ivan Konev
"You cannot invent on a blackboard."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
Omar Bradley
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Omar Bradley
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"Creativity flourishes when we dare to be different."
Omar Bradley
"A person who makes no mistakes does not try new things."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
George S. Patton
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"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
George S. Patton
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"Creativity flourishes when freedom is protected."
Paul von Hindenburg
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"Creativity requires discipline and focus."
Paul von Hindenburg
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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
John French
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"The greatest inventions are born from the marriage of necessity and imagination."
John French
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"In the annals of military history, improvisation has proven as valuable as planning."
Douglas Haig
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"Creativity takes courage."
Edmund Allenby
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
Edmund Allenby
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"A man who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Bernard Montgomery
"Innovation in warfare comes from those who dare to think differently."
Erwin Rommel
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"Innovation requires the courage to be misunderstood by those who came before."
John French
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"The world needs your unique gifts; do not wait for permission to share them."
John French
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"To create is to defy the entropy of the universe."
John French
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"A creative mind is never at rest."
Alfred von Schlieffen
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
Erwin Rommel
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"Creativity is not the absence of limitation, but the resourcefulness within constraint."
John French
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"Creativity flourishes when we embrace change."
William Tecumseh Sherman
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"Talent is a gift, but genius is a grace."
Napoléon III
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"The creative impulse is humanity's truest form of prayer."
Helmuth von Moltke
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"Creativity is the rearrangement of existing elements into new meaning."
Helmuth von Moltke
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"I have created nothing; I have only organized that which already existed."
Napoléon III
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"The creativity required in war is the creativity of survival, the most primal form."
Edmund Allenby
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"To create something lasting, one must first understand what is worth lasting."
Edmund Allenby