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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon’s advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one’s path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest.Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

The ‘silly question’ is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Companies that recognize the need to be creative about their businesses are going to pursue this creative thinking with us or without us. It’s our collective responsibility, our collective future to make sure they choose to do it with us.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn’t about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.

Applying creative thinking to our clients’ business strategy-this should be our industry’s new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!