Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Steve Jobs
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask
creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty
because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. Steve Jobs
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a
wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the
start, you’ll never stick it out. Steve Jobs
We are gambling on our vision, and we would rather do
that than make ‘me-too’ products. For us, it’s always the next dream.
Steve Jobs
The people who made Mac are sort of on the edge. Steve Jobs
I think the artistry is in having an insight into what
one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one
else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who
don’t have that insight.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. Pablo Picasso
He who would be a man must therefore be a nonconformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert
When you can do a common thing in an uncommon way; you will command the attention of the world. George Washington Carver
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Jack Kerouac
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. James Baldwin
Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh
If you’re to create something powerful and important, you
must at the very least be driven by an equally powerful inner force.
Ryan Holiday
If it doesn’t sell; it isn’t creative. David Ogilvy
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde
In order to create you have to believe in your ability to
do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and,
of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping
on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life.
T.C. Boyle
Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space
occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.
Mahershala Ali
The important thing for you is to be alert, to question, to find out, so that your own initiative may be awakened. Bruce Lee
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity,
wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human
spirit. E. E. Cummings
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker
It may be that our cosmic curiosity is a
genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Arthur Koestler
If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things. Larry Page
The most talented, thought-provoking, game-changing people are never normal. Richard Branson
The most dangerous idea is silencing people. Naval Ravikant
Of all lies, art is the least untrue. Gustave Flaubert
Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you
to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of
your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you
were forbidden to write. Rainer Maria Rilke
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time. John Stuart Mill
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. Victor Pinchuk
So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work. Austin Kleon
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas Edison
There’s a way to do it better – find it. Thomas Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas Edison
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison
There are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. Thomas A. Edison
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison
To have a great idea, have a lot of them. Thomas Edison
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t. Thomas A. Edison
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline. Duke Ellington (By the way, did you know that deadlines can actually crush your creativity?)
It’s no accident that AHA and HAHA are spelled almost the same way. Mitch Ditkoff
We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents. Bob Ross
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it’s dead. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. Gilda Radner
Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams,
Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll
either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question. Austin
Kleon
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore. Wavy Gravy
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that
heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny!’. Isaac
Asimov
The stone age didn’t end because they ran out of stones.
The best art divides the audience. Rick Rubin
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous. Ralph Caplan
Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it. Tim Cook
To make something new in fashion, you have to stay in a little bit of mad place and do a revolution. Alessandro Michele
In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out. Austin Kleon
Adequate form [in art] requires: 1) Individuality rather
than imitative repetitiousness 2) Brevity rather than bulkiness 3)
Clarity rather than obscurity 4) Simplicity of expression rather than
complexity of form. Bruce Lee
It is not daily increase but daily decrease – hack away
the unessential! The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.
Bruce Lee
It is indeed difficult to convey simplicity. Bruce Lee
Simplicity and complexity need each other. John Maeda
