T. D. Jakes Quotes

You have to think outside the box.

The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don't have.

The hero is the one with ideas.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Sometimes, you're before your time with ideas, and you have to accept that you can't know.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I like people who can see what other people can't yet imagine.

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.

I know how to think outside of the box and be creative.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.