Imaginative Solutions Quotes

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.

I'm a builder. I build ideas and give them to the people, and they receive them in such a wonderful way.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

What characteristics are most important in creative workers? One quality you need is inventiveness. You need to be able to take whatever product or service you are providing and figure out ways of making it better, faster, cheaper. The other quality is empathy and insight into what people might want, even though they don't even know their wants, probably because there's no product or service to test their wants.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

When you've got hardly any equipment, very little money and no access to any information, your sound is very much dictated by you, your setup and what you're listening to. Nothing more.

Creativity is really at the center of what I do, it's a mix of creativity, innovation and savoir faire that creates magical products.

Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.