“Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.”

“Our creative habits are as mysterious to each other as our domestic habits.”

“…the key factor in industry is creativity. I said there are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.”

“Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.”

“The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.”

“Nature may certainly produce whatever can arise from habit: Nay, habit is nothing but one of the principles of nature, and derives all its force from that origin.”

“Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.”

“Common elements of creativity are originality and imagination. Creativity is intertwined with the freedom to design, to invent and to dream. In engineering and science a creative idea is useful only if it meets three conditions: the constraint of the natural laws, the constraint of cost, and the constraint of technical feasibility.”

“The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.”

“I found that business life is full of creative original minds -along with the usual number of second-guessers, of course.”