John Dewey Quotes

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

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

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

We must use time creatively.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I hadn’t thought of that.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

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

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.

Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.