1. A new idea is at its most vulnerable during the first few moments of life. In any important relationship, one negative comment outweighs ten positives.
2. A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous, and then dismissed as trivial, until finally it becomes what everybody knows. ~William James
3. Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour, springs and germinates no more. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
4. Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done. - Rudolph Flesch
5. Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. ~Thomas Disch
6. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgi
7. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. ~Howard Aiken
8. Everything you see and touch was once an invisible idea until someone chose to bring it into being. Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. ~Richard Bach
9. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~Thomas Alva Edison
10. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. ~Francis Bacon
11. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~Albert Einstein
12. If the car industry behaved like the computer industry over the last 30 years, a Rolls-Royce would cost $5, get 300 miles per gallon, and blow up once a year killing all passengers inside. ~Unknown
13. 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. ~Theodore Levitt
14. The “silly” question is the first intimation of some totally new development. ~Alfred North Whitehead
15. What is now proved was once only imagined. ~William Blake