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Quotes for Transformation ~ CREATIVITY ~"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment." —Ralph Marston To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love. –Leo Buscaglia "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." —Joseph Chilton Pearce When I take on a new problem, I'm not interested in how it's been done before. I only want to know, of all the constraints people tend to assume, which ones are actually fundamental and which ones are just habit? –Jeff Bonwick, Sun Microsystems It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. –Alan Cohen You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. –Buckminster Fuller "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." —Albert Einstein "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." —Arthur Schopenhauer "Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' Others dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?' " —George Bernard Shaw
"Different is not necessarily better but better is always different." "Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life's forthcoming attractions." —Albert Einstein "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." —George Bernard Shaw "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside awakes." —Carl Gustav Jung "No great artists ever sees things as they really are. If he did then he would cease to be an artist." —Oscar Wilde "Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in." —Willis Harman "The best way to predict the future is to invent it... " —Alan Kay "Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." —Mary Lou Cook "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." —Wayne Gretzky "You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus." —Mark Twain "The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity." —Ludwig Wittgenstein "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have run out." —Chinese proverb "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." —Albert Einsten "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." —Abraham Maslow "The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation." —William James "Intuition is not contrary to reason, but outside the province of reason." —Carl Jung "The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation." —Alan Cohen "Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there is a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours." —Noam Chomsky "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." —Charles Darwin "When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." —Pantanjali "If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that remains is a compromise." —Robert Fritz "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." —T. S. Eliot "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 "If you're not living on the edge... you're taking up too much room." —African Proverb
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." "If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one." —Anthony J. D'Angelo "It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." —Henri Poincare "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." —WolfgangMozart "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." —George Bernard Shaw "Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare." —Japanese proverb "The impossible is often the untried." —Jim Goodwin "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." —Alexander Graham Bell "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." —Albert Einstein "When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane." "If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid." "It takes more courage to alter an opinion than to stick with it." "Comfort is found among those who agree with you; growth among those who don't." "Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic" — Werner Ehrhart "Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything." —Jean-Louis Etienne
"Here's to the crazy ones.
They're not fond of rules.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
We make tools for these kinds of people. "When you're young, you look at most of the programs on television and think, 'There's a conspiracy! The networks have conspired to dumb us down!' But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in the business to make money by giving people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic. You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution!" —Steve Jobs
"Without death there would be very little progress." —Steve Jobs "You know, we don't grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved... I mean, we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge." —Steve Jobs "We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is." —Steve Jobs
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