- “Before I figured out how time actually works, I put in twice as many hours and got half as much done. Everything changed when I figured out the secret of Einstein Time. Now I work half as much and get at least twice as much done. Even though I understand the science behind that shift, it still seems like a miracle to me…One immediate payoff of getting the correct understanding of time is that you feel less stressed as you go through your day. That’s good, but there’s an even bigger reward: you free up time for creative thinking.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks)- Highlight on Page 159
- “When you make the shift to Einstein Time, you experience a major surge in your productivity, creativity, and enjoyment. The shift takes place the moment you embrace one profoundly simple truth: You’re where time comes from.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks)- Highlight on Page 160
- “I studied the work of Teresa Amabile of the Harvard Business School. She is one of the country’s foremost experts on business innovation and she said, “All innovation begins with creative ideas.” Okay, I said to myself, that makes sense, but how do you define a creative idea? What is it? Over time I came up with this simple explanation: A creative idea is one that’s new and useful. A new idea that isn’t useful, I reasoned, isn’t worth much in the business world. I could design a car with square wheels, it would be new and different, but it wouldn’t be of much use. Later I’d come to realize that this definition transcended business, for it also applied to science, entertainment, and even the arts.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 13
- “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 13
- “In other words, creative thought is the search for an idea that already exists, not the act of waiting for one to pop into your head.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 14
- “According to Richard Posner, a judge for the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and author of The Little Book of Plagiarism, “. . . in Shakespeare’s time, unlike ours, creativity was understood to be an improvement rather than originality—in other words, creative imitation.” He goes on to explain that “the puzzle is not that creative imitation was cherished in Shakespeare’s time, as it is today, but that ‘originality in the modern sense, in which the imitative element is minimized or at least effectively disguised, was not.” In his book, he explains that the concept of originality and plagiarism arose during the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth century. Before this time, it was unusual for artists, architects, scientists, or writers to sign their work. Innovation and creativity were understood to be collaborative efforts in which one idea was copied from another and evolved through incremental enhancements. The concept of plagiarism didn’t exist. Copying and creating were rooted in the same thing. The person who copied had an obligation to improve the copy, that was it.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 17
- “The Origin of a Creative Idea: Step One: Defining Define the problem you’re trying to solve. Step Two: Borrowing Borrow ideas from places with a similar problem. Step Three: Combining Connect and combine these borrowed ideas. The Evolution of a Creative Idea: Step Four: Incubating Allow the combinations to incubate into a solution. Step Five: Judging Identify the strength and weaknesses of the solution. Step Six: Enhancing Eliminate the weak points while enhancing the strong ones.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 24-25
- ““A problem is the foundation of a creative idea.” In other words, a creative idea is built upon the problem one is trying to solve. It’s the starting point.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 34
- “Observation is the act of studying the production and destruction of patterns. The creative genius recognizes patterns, is always conscious of them in all their glorious forms, and then observes either the making or breaking of them.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 44
- “Eckhart Tolle observes: “With enthusiasm, you find you don’t have to do it all yourself. In fact, there is nothing of significance you can do by yourself. Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy and all you have to do then is ride the wave.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 244
- “In Western culture, we tend to view anger as a flaw that needs to be eliminated. That’s how I was raised. As devout Christians, my parents felt that anger was a sin and should be dispelled. But trying to eliminate anger never works. The more you try to suppress it, the more likely it is to erupt later in a more virulent form. A better approach is to become as intimate as possible with how anger works on your mind and body so that you can transform its underlying energy into something productive. As Buddhist scholar, Robert Thurman writes, “Our goal surely is to conquer anger, but not to destroy the fire it has misappropriated. We will wield that fire with wisdom and turn it to creative ends.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 269
- “The throat also represents the creative flow in the body. This is where we express our creativity, and when our creativity is stifled and frustrated, we often have throat problems. We all know many people who live their whole lives for others. They never once get to do what they want to do. They are always pleasing mothers/fathers/ spouses/lovers/bosses. TONSILLITIS and THYROID problems are just frustrated creativity, resulting from not being able to do what you want to do.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 127
- “Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable…it’s the scientist who is free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.” John C. Polyani, Born: January 23, 1929