"Ideas grow out of irritation. Like the pearls that grow when an oyster is irritated by grains of sand inside its shell." - Michael Michalko

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - Woody Allen

"Some men see things as the are and say 'Why?' I dream thigns that never were and say 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw

"We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around. Change prepares the ground for revolution." - Eric Hoffer, Philosopher

"He who laughs, lasts." - Mary Pettibone Poole

"I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my own work. I resent the limits of my own imagination. I believe in being an innovator." - Walt Disney

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin

"Chance favours only the mind that is prepared." - Pasteur, Louis

"All progress, all success springs from thinking." - Thomas Edison

"The real act of discovery consists not of finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." - William James

"Every act of creation begins with the act of destruction." - Picasso

"Think visually, many of the creative minds in history thought with pictures instead of words." - Jack Foster

"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious,, it seems, takes longer." - Edward R. Murrow

"I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it." - Thomas Edison

"Do not be content with merely generating creative ideas. Remember, the rewards of innovation come to the one who takes action on ideas." - Paul Plsek

"You can observe a lot by watching." - Yogi Berra

"Continue to acculmulate general knowledge about life and events and someday you will combine those elements with other elements to create an idea." - Jack Foster

"Break the mind's rule, smash assumptions." - Paul Plsek

"If you define it, the solutions will come." - Dr Min Basadur

"A creative man can't jump from nothing to a great idea. Do everything you can to get the information defore you get to work. It is the springboard you need for your leap!" - Jask Foster

"To be is to do." - Rousseau
"To do is to be." - Sartre
"Do be do be do." - Sinatra

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie, Physicist

"Avoid being too narrow in the way you define your problem; purposefully try broader definition and see what insights you gain." - Paul Plsek

"Never invent something that people don't want." - Thomas Edison

"Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced." - Alfred Whitehead

"Therefore, when I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but rearrange them to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways." - Sun Tze

"Discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." - Albert Szent Gyorgi

"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious." - Sun Tze

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"The general who wins a battle makes many calcultions in his temple before the battle is fought." - Sun Tze

"An organisation that runs like clockwork is great - if your goal is to run around in the same circle forever." - Anonymous

"To dare to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." - Soren Kierkegaard

"People often ask me if I know the secret of success, and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is you do it by working." - Walt Disney

"To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands." - Sun Tze