Creativity Challenge 2002

WHAT ARE THEY REALLY SAYING TO YOU

Creativity Challenge 2002 #48

Recently I heard Bill Brooks, a very successful speaker/consultant/sales trainer I have met several times through National Speakers Association meetings, talk about how to generate products for a speaking/training/consultant business. One he suggested was producing "Quote" books, with collections of your favorite quotes. He then suggested turning those into articles or audio tapes individually simply by writing or talking about how the individual quotes affect or effect you personally or professionally.

My CC sensor immediately sensed an exercise for stretching our creativity and creative thinking skills.

So this week I am providing 6 quotes for each day for you to randomly pick from and ponder on for 10 to 15 minutes, one quote per day. Then I suggest that you carry that quote with you all day to relook and revisit it often.

This CC could also become a month full of 30 individual CCs. Have fun with them. Please share your thoughts.

MONDAY

Creativity is contagious; pass it on! - Albert Einstein

Ideas are the currency of success. They separate you from your competition. - Edward de Bono

It's always fun to do the impossible, because that is where there is less competition. - Walt Disney

I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. - Dr Seuss

The highest form of courage is the courage to create. - Rollo May

To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories. - Steven Covey

TUESDAY

You could not step twice into the same river, for other waters are ever flowing on to you. Native American proverb... not sure who to give the credit to

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive. Alexis de Veaux

With any change We undertake, We put ourselves in a vulverable position. We might fail. Eric V. Copage-Black Pearls

Life, in all its aspects, is constantly changing... from politics to popular culture, from sociology to science and medicine, etc. Eric V. Copage-Black Pearls

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. Stephen R. Covey

Dhara taku toa i te toa takitahi Engari takimano, no aku tupuna; My greatness comes not from me alone It derives from a multitude, from my ancestors;... Te Maori - Anonymous

WEDNESDAY

Failure is fertilizer for success. --do not know who the author was

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind. --Zen saying

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. --Chinese Proverb

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. --humorous thought

Genius is the fire that lights itself. --do not know who the author was

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. --humorous thought

THURSDAY

Good judgment comes from experience; and experience, well, that comes from bad judgment. --do not know who author was

" No great idea ever enters the mind through the mouth. --do not know who author was

Would that I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in a new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken. --Egyptian scribe

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. --Chinese Proverb

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. --English Proverb

To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid. --Yaqui Mystic

FRIDAY

When the way comes to an end, then change having changed, you pass through. --I Ching

You write down the problem. You think very hard. Then you write down the answer. --a colleague describing the way Richard Feynman solves a problem

No one was ever killed by a fast noise. --do not know the author

Booze gave me wings, but it took away the sky. --do not know the author

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. Edwin H. Land

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams, American cartoonist

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