Create
Definition: Creates: third person present. Bring (something) into existence.
Number of Quotes: 36
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Scott Adams
My failed corporate career became the fodder for the Dilbert
comic. Once it became clear I would
not be climbing any higher on the corporate ladder, it freed me to mock managers without worrying that it
would stall my career. Most failures create some sort of unplanned freedom. I took full advantage of mine.
Scott Adams
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams
Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us so far.
But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.
Peter Bonfield
In a restless, creative business with an emphasis on experiment and development, ideas are the lifeblood.
Richard Branson
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
Coco Chanel
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese
The leader is not just a scorekeeper. He is responsible for creating something new and better.
Wilbur L. Creech
Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not.
Michael Dell
Minds are like parachutes: they only function when they are open.
James Dewar
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your
idea has to be original only in its adaption to the problem you're working on.
Thomas Edison
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
Albert Einstein
Growth is like creativity, it doesn't go along very neat, precise plans. You get clogged highways before
you figure out a way to open up capacity. You get pollution before you figure out a way to fight it.
Steve Forbes
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.
E. M. Forster
We rely on skilled foreign workers for their math, science, and creative abilities as
well as their cultural knowledge, which helps when localizing products for world markets.
Bill Gates
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
André Gide
Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
Doug Hall
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 ... That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play
instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.
Néstor Kirchner
True creativity often starts where language ends.
Arthur Koestler
Creativity is thinking new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Theodore Levitt
A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which
case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.
Henry Mintzberg
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Organizations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.
Narayana Murthy
The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the
others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.
Nicholas Negroponte
If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.
David Ogilvy
Decision making by consensus has been the subject of a great deal of research ... evidence strongly suggests that a
consensus approach yields more creative decisions and more effective implementation than does individual decision making.
William Ouchi
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Gail Sheehy
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such
as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Alfred North Whitehead
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead
Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an
idea should be like sitting on a pin - it should make you jump up and do something.
Kemmons Wilson
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