PRAY|THE|REVOLUTION

• Those who design skyscrapers have a different creativity than those who build doghouses. The pay differs too – Mike Murdock
• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up – Picasso
• There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer screwballs gladly – Yale president Kingman Brewster
• Sometimes creative thinking lies along the lines of invention, where you break new ground. Other times it moves along the lines of innovation, which helps you to do old things in a new way – John Maxwell
• A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea – Quincy Jones
• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions – Antony Jay
• The heads of Industrial Light and Magic, George Lucas’s Star Wars tech company say, “We tell our directors and writers not to write their scripts based on what their understanding of technology is, rather to really roam free and take advantage of their creative spirit”. ILM has provided special effects for eight of the ten highest grossing films of all time, and in the process won twelve Academy Awards.
• Studies of creativity suggest that the biggest single variable of whether or not employees will be creative is whether they perceive they have permission – David Hills
• Anything un-attempted remains unattained.
• I got a picture of what I wanted to be and lived my way into it – Arnold Schwarzenegger
• We all live under the same sky but we do not all have the same horizon.
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man attempts to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man – George Bernard Shaw
• Weed out the dullards – nurture the nuts! – Tom Peters

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