Colin Powell Quotes

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

No matter what you are currently able to do, creativity can make you capable of more.

What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

There's a moment where Jobs says that one day you will wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you. I want people to believe that; we're so often bound by obstructions and judges.

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

If you can imagine it, we can make it.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.