“Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.”

Robert Toth

“there is no use trying,” said alice, one can’t believe impossible things.”

Lewis Carroll

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I try more and more to be myself,

caring relatively little whether people

approve or disapprove.

Vincent Van Gogh

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas.

I’m frightened of the old ones.”

John Cage

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“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.

Carl Jung

“i like nonsenseit wakes up the brain cells

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living

it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a

telescope

Which is what i doand that enables you

to laugh at life’s realities

Dr. Seuss

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“what is now proved was once only imagined.”

William Blake

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.

Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams

"laughter is the best creative medicine."

~ John Cleese

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works;

if from the head almost nothing.

-Marc Chagall

They who dreamby day

are cognizantof many things which escape

Those who dream only by night.”

Edgar Allan Poe

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"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”

--Popular Mechanics, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

--Thomas Watson, CEO IBM, 1943

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.”

--The editor - Prentice Hall, 1957

"But what ... is it good for?"

--Engineer-IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

--Ken Olson, president, Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”

--Western Union internal memo, 1876.

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“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?”

--David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

“A cookie store is a bad idea.

Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.”

--Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting

Mrs. Fields' Cookies.

"Drill for oil?

You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?

You're crazy."--Drillers who Edwin L. Drake

tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.

“You will sell No more than 1800 Of those 904 copiers.”

--Marketing Researchers 1960

“They did not sell any.

Instead they leased them for many years to come and became a Fortune 500 company….XEROX!”

Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP

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