S.1 Utilization and Innovation
Understanding Creativity through Quotations of the Creative
After testing and verification of a concept there is usually a major transition to a new kind of Work. Generally the function of this work is to utilize the fruit of our new and useful understanding or discovery. One might think that the Eureka Moment is the cusp or denouement of the creative process, but from a business point of view moving from Verification to Utilization is the most important cusp. Either a change in talents or a change in personalities may be required for real success.
Originally I thought up the category Utilization more because I thought I needed it than because there were ample quotes to be found that represented good examples. Utilization of a creative idea requires a diversity of talents. I think it is difficult to find good examples because a short terse poster-worthy text would not easily cover all the necessary actions and talents that superior utilization might require. Generally my search for good examples of utilization quotes fall in four broad categories, 1) Opportunity search and recognition, 2) Salesmanship, 3) Execution, and 4) Follow up
Here is the major change in the work. Edward De Bono says it succinctly: " With a problem you search for the solution, with an opportunity you search for the benefit." Root Bernstein's character: Hunter in his book "Discovering" says: It can be damn hard if you're a Mendel or an Einstein and you've invented the problem as well as the solution. Then you have to convince your colleagues to accept a shocking solution to a problem most didn't know they had!
TYPE QUOTES
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
-James Russell Lowell
You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services
-Raphael
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
-Benjamin Franklin
SELECTED QUOTES
With a problem you search for the solution, with an opportunity you search for the benefit.
-Edward De Bono
You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services
-Raphael
It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.
-Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
-James Russell Lowell
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
-Michael Faraday
Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for the want of active imagination in their application rather than in their means of acquisition that they fail of success. The creative process does not end with an idea--it only starts with an idea."
-John Arnold
Books can’t do anything by themselves. They need us. Today we need to read more than ever. And we need to act now more than ever.
-Will Schwalbe
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
-Benjamin Franklin
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.
-Reginald Fessenden
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.
-Robert M. Hayes
Being an independent inventor is tough. You develop a product, patent it, then you're looking for someone who will see the benefit from this technology. You assume all the investment and all the risk. It can be a challenge.
-Lonnie Johnson
There is no short cut to opportunity search and development. Deliberate thinking time is required. The more of that we can risk the less we risk other resources. Nor should it be imagined that the thinking time is wasted if the opportunity is turned down. That thinking investment may prove useful in another situation later on.
-Edward De Bono
I can find a hundred men to tell me an idea won't work... what I want are men who will make it work.
-Herbert Henry Dow
Howard H. Aiken, a famous inventor, said, “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.”
-Scott Berkun
Obviously, when you produce and try to sell a creative idea you are taking a risk: of making a mistake, failing, making an ass of yourself, losing money, hurting yourself, or whatever.
-James L. Adams
In War everything is simple but simple is difficult.
-Karl Von Clausewitz, On War
The practical applications of new discoveries in science sometimes extend faster and further than the knowledge of the general principles on which they depend.
-William Smith, Geologist
Root Bernstein's character: Hunter in Discovering It can be damn hard if you're a Mendel or an Einstein and you've invented the problem as well as the solution. Then you have to convince your colleagues to accept a shocking solution to a problem most didn't know they had!
-Root Bernstein
Most of my ideas belonged to other people who didn't bother to develop them.
-Thomas Edison
Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.
-Irving Berlin
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-Winston Churchill
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
-Sir William Osler
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill
At some point, all creative tasks become work. The interesting and fun challenges fade, and the ordinary, boring, inglorious work necessary to bring an idea to the world becomes the reality.
-Scott Berkun
SELECTED QUOTES
The above posters are (A - ) from my poster collection. I will be publishing more posters later. The following table Displays the position of these posters in my classification of Phases and Topics of the Creative Process. My posts will follow the order of the following table. This post is S.1 on the Utilization and Innovation. It is S point 1 because I have many more posters on this topic and anticipate posting more as S.2 etc.
……………………More Quote-Posters for the S.2 Utilization and Innovation phase…………..
List of the Phases and Topics correlated to the Steps in the Scientific Method. These phases and topics have been derived from study of quotations from many creative individual from many fields of endeavor.
My goal is to publish quote poster collections on A through W as individual posts, eventually. Currently my quote collection numbers over 4,000 and my poster collection includes nearly 1,400 different individuals. I have created over 50 posters for each Phase and Topic listed in the above table. Advise and wisdom from as many individuals as possible is my goal. These quotes and the posters have driven the classification above. - Apply for a free subscription. Thanks Walt.
The next phase of the Topic is labeled T.1 Education and Creativity.
Walter H Pierce