"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
           - John Lennon

"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
           - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
           - John Kenneth Galbraith

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
           - David Ogilvy

"No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike."
           - Gen. George S. Patten, Jr.

"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.''
           - Mark Twain

"I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."
           - Wayne Gretsky

"The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away."
           - Linus Pauling

"Research is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought."
           - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
           - Mark Twain

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
           - Dr. Edwin Land

"I know quite certainly that I have no special gift. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance have brought me my ideas."
           - Albert Einstein

"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."
           - Salvador Dali

"Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use of what you have."
           - Karl von Clausewitz

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
           - Wayne Gretzky

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
           - St. Francis of Assisi

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
           - Mark Twain

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
           - Michelangelo

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
           - Scott Adams

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
           - Albert Einstein

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
           - Linus Pauling

"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark."
           - David Ogilvy

"Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
           - Pablo Picasso

"You've got to find some way of saying it, without saying it."
           - Duke Ellington

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
           - Herman Melville

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
           - Andre Gide

"If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative."
           - David Ogilvy