Creativity/Ideas

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

-- Hal Abelson

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

-- Howard Aiken

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

-- Anonymous

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

-- Charles Brower

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

-- John Cage

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

-- Dale Carnegie

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

-- Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

-- Albert Einstein

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

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

-- Robert Flaherty

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

-- Anatole France

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

-- Anatole France

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