About George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright and critic, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature. (1856-1950)

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• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.Everybody's Political What's What? (1944)
• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), Act II
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.Man and Superman (1903), Epistle Dedicatory

More quotes on creativity and innovation

• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.Kurt Vonnegut
• Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.Ray Bradbury
• We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.Ray Bradbury
• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.Wayne Gretzky
• Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.Bruce Lee

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