The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient read more

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.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.

Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which read more

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has read more

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.