Chinua Achebe Quotes

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

We should have more invention.

Doubt is the father of invention.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Creativity is what transforms.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

We need innovation and creativity.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.