Quotes: Alex Bogusky

"Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness." 

–– Alex Bogusky (b. 1963), American designer, advertising executive, and writer. 

via Sketchbook 14, 2011, p. 92.

Creativity quotes: Scott Berkun

"It's easy to forget that the innovations we use are comprised of a series of smaller innovations. However, making new things requires taking apart other things and learning from the pieces. Sometimes inventors even work the other way, developing breakthroughs by deliberately experimenting with existing innovations." 

–– Scott Berkun, American writer 

Source: Scott Berkun. The Myths of Innovation, p. 78

Women's quotes: Rei Kawakubo

"If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.

 –– Rei Kawakubo (b. 1942), Japanese fashion designer