Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavors to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.

Everything has been thought of before... the real problem is to think of it again.

People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking?

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.