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"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth." -- Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005), writer, management consultant and university professor

"An innovation, to be effective, has to be simple and it has to be focused. It should do only one thing, otherwise it confuses. If it is not simple, it won’t work. Everything new runs into trouble; if complicated, it cannot be repaired or fixed. All effective innovations are breathtakingly simple. Indeed, the greatest praise an innovation can receive is for people to say: 'This is obvious. Why didn’t I think of it?'"
-- Peter F. Drucker: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

"Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress."
-- Ted Levitt

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
-- Charles Mingus

"Nothing undermines innovation more effectively than fear. By the same token, nothing encourages innovation better than finding ways to cope with fear. Real innovation is most likely to take place among those who aren’t hamstrung by anxiety ...

Why is the prospect of failure so frightening, that we can’t risk failing even when we know that’s the only real path to genuine success? Actually, it isn’t failure itself that scares us most. What really makes our hearts thump and palms sweat is the prospect of being seen as a failure. We reveal ourselves more in adversity than triumph. Suppose onlookers don’t like what they see? What if they find us laughable? Failure could make us look ridiculous. The safer course is not to act, or say anything out of the ordinary, and to focus on appearances more than outcomes.

A fear of embarrassment drives more psychic engines than we’ll ever realize. This is the dread that transcends most others: looking foolish. Getting egg on our face. Feeling humiliated. The fear of humiliation is the least understood, but most paralyzing, of all inhibitions."

-- Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes: Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

"One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity. Be willing to try on something new and play the game full-out."
-- Marcia Wieder

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."
-- Sophia Loren

"Creators start at the end. First they have an idea of what they want to create. Sometimes this idea is general, and sometimes it is specific. Before you can create what you want to create, you must know what you are after, what you want to bring into being."
-- Robert Fritz

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart truly desires must come to you."
-- Shakti Gawain

"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade is no easier to make than an oak."
-- James Russell Lowell

"My method is different. I don't rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the devise in my mind. When I have gone as far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain."
-- Win Ng

"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work. Risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself."
-- Alan Alda

"Don't overemphasize logic. It inhibits creativity."
-- Fred Gratzon, author

"Creativity is the ability to form ideas, feelings, and expressions that can transform the physical world in one way or another. It is a part of the light of Great Spirit of which we are all made, and not limited to artists, musicians, or writers. Therefore, we are all creative and can use this divine energy in everything to make life easier. Whenever there is a problem in relationships, family, career, finances, or any part of our daily living, we have the ability to resolve the situation through our inner creative spark. Great Spirit is a bountiful source of ideas and expressions. There is always some way to lighten our load. Creativity also gives life. It frees up energy blocks in our various bodies and helps to bring balance into our lives. When we use creativity, we use the force of Great Spirit's energy at its highest possible manifestation, especially when we use creativity for the highest good of mankind.

Great Spirit, release the creativity in our spirits so our children can have a future filled with love, peace, and happiness.

-- Love, Owl Woman

"Never take anything for granted. Most of the world operates in a very limited way. Sometimes you must think creatively for others in order to overcome obstacles you face together."
-- Robert J. Petro: The Book of Secrets

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."
-- Dee Hock, futurist

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
-- John Ruskin

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
-- Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) British photographer and designer

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
-- Mary Lou Cook, minister

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives ... Most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity ... when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life."
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
-- Erich Fromm (1900–1980) psychologist and philosopher

"Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."
-- George Kneller

"Innovation is both conceptual and perceptual ... Successful innovators use both the right side and the left side of their brains. They look at figures, and they look at people. They work out analytically what the innovation has to be to satisfy the opportunity. And then they go out and look at the customers, the users, to see what their expectations, their values, their needs are."
-- Peter F. Drucker: Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles