In recent post at his website, Josh Linkner shares 21 of his favorite creativity quotations. Here are the first ten:

1. “Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the Things That Could Go Wrong.'”
Marianne Williamson

2. “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
General Erick Shinseki

3. “Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”
Pablo Picasso

4. “Out there is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it. You’ve got one option – to shoot first”
Gary Hamel

5. “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
John Steinbeck

6. “Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, progress stops.”
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

7. “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
M. Scott Peck

8. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

9. “Challenge everything, assume nothing.”
Sergio Zyman

10. “Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.”
Thomas Edison

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Here is a direct link to the complete list.

Josh Linkner is a venture capitalist, tech entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, and top-rated keynote speaker. As Founding Partner of Detroit Venture Partners, he helps startups disrupt the old guard while helping to rebuild his hometown of Detroit, Michigan. Josh is on a mission to drive creativity, innovation, and reinvention. And he also plays a mean jazz guitar. For more, please click here.