You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called 'bad' for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they're detrimental to our health.

— John Rampton

Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.

— Max McKeown

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

— Pawan Mishra

If you cannot create, then buy a company that can. In particular, the large corporations buy small, personnally owned companies that have made breakthroughs in particular areas. They are buying creativity, though the immediate rush this produces doesn't last long. Once integrated into an administrative atmosphere, the creativity is sucked out of them.(IV - From Managers and Speculators to Growth).

— John Ralston Saul

I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my ownmemorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, calledrote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,a great human gift disowned.

— Grace Paley

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in.

— Jonah Lehrer

People with vision sees opportunity where there is problem. They see money not problem.

— Patience Johnson

Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Creative people are constantly surprised. They don’t assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don’t assume that anybody else does either. They question the obvious—not out of contrariness but because they see the shortcomings of accepted explanations before the rest of us do. They sense problems before they are generally perceived and are able to define what they are.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi