Denis Waitley Quotes

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

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

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.