Change is the law of life. And those who look
only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
President John F. Kennedy
Anything that the human mind can conceive can be produced ultimately.
David Sarnoff, broadcast executive
Have no kowtowing respect for precedent. Do not allow the dictate of
public opinion to hamper your efforts.
John Henry Patterson, executive
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these
apples, then you and I will still have one apple. But if you have an
idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us
will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw, playwright
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ides are any
good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken, computer engineer
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong,
than to be always right and having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono, creativity coach, author
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope
for it.
Albert Einstein, physicist
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein, physicist
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the
works of others as his standard.
Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer
I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply
because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.
Soichiro Honda, entrepreneur, industrialist
Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You
will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. The
incompetent never get in a position to destroy it. It is those who have
achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are
forever clogging things up.
Charles Sorenson, automotive executive
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if
you stand still, it will swallow you.
William Knudsen Jr., former chairman, Ford Motor Co.
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
Bernard Baruch, financier
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already
there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a
little more than a century ago?
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, advertising executive
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
Pablo Picasso, artist
Character: The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own
life, is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion, writer
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but man is tested
by the praise he receives.
Proverbs 27:21