How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world.
– Anne Frank
Category Archives: Creativity
You see…
You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”
– George Bernard Shaw
If we…
If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.
– Chellis Glendinning
Most of the…
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
– Dale Carnegie
The true mark…
… of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special.
– Bill Taylor
How do you…
…make sure you get the bubbling up of ideas through a coalition of energy, rather the boiling down that consensus inevitably provokes? It’s about eliminating all the ordinary, in-between stuff that is no good. You have to cut it out and concentrate all the energy on stretching for the best. Then the really good stuff acts as a magnet for more. If you allow middling stuff to stay – the filler stuff – then that works as a magnet for more of the same too
– Siobhan Davies
Dreaming…
… is the first step to becoming. To dream of the time ahead is to welcome an inner fold of reality we long for but have not yet realized. It is an act not just of hope but of inspiration.
– Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson
If we…
… cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.
– Chellis Glendinning
The things…
…we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity
– Margaret Wheatley
I am a man…
… of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times
– Everett Dirksen
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