Paul Rand Quotes

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

We've all forgotten how to be original.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

I want to do something creative, not just easy.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas?

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

Every second or third day I'm getting calls from people with new projects, asking me to listen to stories. But I don't want to do just any other project. There should be some zing to it; something new.

I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.