Creativity & Innovation Quotes (1627 Quotes)




    I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

    . . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.



    Does history support a belief in God If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a supreme being intelligent and benevolent, the answer must be a reluctant negative.

    The fact that St. Paul was not on the list today was very positive. But, being creative, innovative --- Bill Ford has stated very, very clearly that their future is based on innovation. And that innovation applies to everybody in the company, from somebody on the assembly line to somebody in the finance office. And it's an opportunity. Does that mean this plant is going to survive We just don't know. But I can tell you one thing for sure, doing nothing is not a good option.

    Archipelago was created with the vision of making markets better for all investors, a vision that we share with the NYSE and has led us to this historic day. I am extremely proud of the innovation, the technology and the value Archipelago has brought to its customers and shareholders and am excited about combining our strengths with those of the NYSE.

    I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

    We're a counter-marketing program that's not allowed to market. We've had to revise our methods and find creative, cheap ways to get youth actively involved.

    If you do it every season, it becomes expected. And the minute it becomes expected, it's no longer cultural or countercultural. This is about innovation, lifestyle and attitude. And if you are conforming to the norms of the industry, you have lost your personality and individuality.


    What China has not realized, if it truly wants to go to the next level, is that numbers are not enough. You must reward innovation, and reward scholarly work.

    Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.


    Water is essential for soup but soup is more than water. Competence is essential for business but business is more than competence. What is added to water gives the 'value' of the soup. What is added to competence gives the value delivered by business. Competence is becoming a commodity, Information is becoming a commodity. State of the art technology is becoming a commodity. So what is going to differentiate businesses How are these commodities to be designed to deliver value That means design. That means creativity. That means new ideas. Ideas are going to become more important in business than they have ever been.

    Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, ''Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

    How ironic that in the United States -- where freedom and innovation are core values -- these regulators are trying to punish an American company that has worked hard and successfully to deliver on these values,


    This is really an opportunity to provide choice. Now users can select the safest and fastest Internet browser. Increasing our market share allows Opera to play a stronger role in shaping the future of Web innovation.


    The existing technology is more than 100 years old, and it shows. Blood pressure monitoring was overdue for a major innovation, and Primo represents that innovation.


    When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.



    Silicon Valley is a hotbed of innovation in wireless technologies. Establishing a ubiquitous network will enable the deployment of a new generation of broadband services for our entire community, including small businesses, schools, non-profits, and all the citizens of our region.



    Man is about to be an automaton he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman.

    In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties being primarily a creative, contributing person having learned to profit from experience having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.


    The demand for new computer applications will no doubt continue to spur demand for those with the creativity and the higher-level conceptual skills that will enable us to increasingly harness technology to produce greater economic value,




    I don't know how much the music has influenced my writing I know it's inspired me, and the young jazz musicians I went to school with in Detroit, Kenny Burrell, Pepper Adams, Bess Bonier, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, were the first people I knew who were living the creative lives of artists.

    The United States has long drawn comfort from the quality differential of its educational system. However, in the Internet Age with its ubiquitous diffusion of knowledge, innovation, and technological change, that may turn out to be an increasingly false sense of security.



    GE is an extraordinary company. The optimism, creative leadership and innovative culture creates an environment within which ideas are not only encouraged, they are nurtured. We appreciate and value the partnership with GE, a relationship that has endured for over 80 years.


    The investment process is a creative process. The better investors are those people who allow themselves a degree of lateral thinking, thinking outside the box, thinking creatively.

    The growing need for companies to comply with a wide variety of regulatory requirements creates new and difficult challenges that can distract an organization from adding value to its products, and yet achieving compliance is essential to protecting the value of its innovations.

    It's been an historic week for our company. Our ranking in Fortune underscores our commitment to lead our industry not only in terms of innovation, but also in the way we conduct business on a daily basis and how we continue to exceed our customers' expectations. We are extremely proud of what we have accomplished.

    The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.

    No other sports marketing arrangement comes close to the fan benefits that we've achieved with the NFL. It represents a clear departure from the standard sports sponsorship, and delivers exclusively into the hands of Sprint customers and fans an entirely new and interactive experience. Beginning this NFL season, innovation takes on new meaning for fans who will be connected to the NFL in a way that's uniquely their own.

    The Internet's open, neutral architecture has proven to be an enormous engine for market innovation, economic growth, social discourse, and the free flow of ideas. Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success.

    In 1982, we were just a group of young guys who believed The Network is the Computer. Today, I'm proud to say this principle still guides Sun's business and is driving many of today's prominent innovations, trends and business models. It's great to be back on stage with this group of big minds and talk about the history and evolution of Silicon Valley, the future of the network, and what this all means as we enter a new age of participation on the global network.

    This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music -- not only across genres but across generations as well, ... In our sixth year, the spotlight continues to shine not only on established performers but on emerging singers and songwriters and the creative professionals who usually remain behind the scenes. It's inspiring to see so many albums, songs, and music makers getting due recognition from their peers, as well as such a cross section of genres being recognized. There will be much to celebrate on November 3.



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