great minds on creativity, innovation and imagination

Great Minds on Creativity, Great Minds on Creativity, Innovation and ImaginationInnovation and Imagination

Thoughts from some of history’s greatest minds

Great Minds on Creativity, Great Minds on Creativity, Innovation and ImaginationInnovation and Imagination

Thoughts from some of history’s greatest minds

Imagination is Imagination is more important more important

than than knowledge. knowledge.

–Albert Einstein–Albert Einstein

Creativity is just Creativity is just connecting things. When connecting things. When you ask creative people you ask creative people how they did something, how they did something,

they feel a little guilty they feel a little guilty because they didn't really because they didn't really

do it, they just saw do it, they just saw something. It seemed something. It seemed

obvious to them after a obvious to them after a while. That's because while. That's because

they were able to connect they were able to connect experiences they've had experiences they've had

and synthesize new and synthesize new things. –Steve Jobsthings. –Steve Jobs

It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails,

admit it frankly and try another.

But above all, try something. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nothing in life is to be

feared, it is only to be

understood. Now is the

time to understand more, so we

can fear less. –Marie Curie

Nothing in life is to be

feared, it is only to be

understood. Now is the

time to understand more, so we

can fear less. –Marie Curie

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination

is out of focus. –Mark Twain

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination

is out of focus. –Mark Twain

I am looking for a lot of men

who have an infinite

capacity to not know what

can’t be done. –Henry Ford

I am looking for a lot of men

who have an infinite

capacity to not know what

can’t be done. –Henry Ford

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regrettably upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones

which open for us.- Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regrettably upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones

which open for us.- Alexander Graham Bell

I have not failed, I have not failed,

I have just found I have just found 10,000 ways 10,000 ways

that won’t work. that won’t work. –Thomas A. Edison–Thomas A. Edison

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis

of man’s desire to understand. –Neil Armstrong

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis

of man’s desire to understand. –Neil Armstrong

If we all worked on the

assumption that what is

accepted as true is really true, there

would be little hope for

advance. –Orville Wright

If we all worked on the

assumption that what is

accepted as true is really true, there

would be little hope for

advance. –Orville Wright

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

–John F. Kennedy

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

–John F. Kennedy

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. -Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. -Winston Churchill

An idea is salvation by imagination. –Frank Lloyd

Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination. –Frank Lloyd

Wright

Towering genius

distains a beaten path.

–Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius

distains a beaten path.

–Abraham Lincoln