Craig Benson Quotes

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

I find it fascinating that you can look at the same problem from different perspectives and approach it using different methods.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Thinking differently is my strength.

Extraordinary situations require an out-of-box thinking. Conventionalists cannot find such solutions.

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

We need to think out of the box rather than just going round and round, beating ourselves up about numbers.

On 'MythBusters,' a lot of what we do does not fall into any category of things we have ever done before. There's a lot of problem solving to figure out how to even approach a given problem. A background in science or engineering helps a lot.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

The secret of innovation is to see what all see but think what none think

The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination