Creativity
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.” — Jonathan Swift
“The most important thing I learned from big companies is that creativity gets stifled when everyone’s got to follow the rules.” — David Kelley
“The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas.” Linus Pauling
“Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.” — Ross Perot
“To copy others is necessary. To copy oneself is pathetic.” — Picasso
“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging and hog futures, because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.” — Carl Ally, founder of Ally & Gargano, one of the 20th century’s most successful advertising agencies