Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.
Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.

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- Imagination is a divine mind.
- Creative needs a purpose, and creativity needs a problem.
- Systems Thinking is a holistic, balanced and abstract thinking to understand things deeply and solve problems systematically.
- Marketing is the marriage of business and creativity. The relationship is enhanced by the occasional affair with science.
- We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
- Conflict is not necessarily bad. If you can avoid taking conflict personally, it is actually a way to get better decisions and better results.
- Routine is the opposite of creativity.
- The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination has no borders.
- People who create beauty with the pieces of their broken heart are indestructible.
- Digital is the age of innovation because creativity is about connecting the dots in the wider scope.
- Creativity is how the soul prays. Pray often.
- The magic of the creative process is that there is no magic. Start where you are. Don’t stop.
- Being creative is not being afraid of being lost.
- If you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.
- Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
- The problem is not a problem until someone handles that problem in a problematic way.
- A writer is never alone, he is always with himself
- It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.
- The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees’ brainpower.