John C. Maxwell Quotes

I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

In Washington, common sense policy is considered bold.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

I pride myself on being able to create mismatches. That's what I've done my whole life.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

I've always appreciated a creative approach to action, doing things that people don't expect, tweaking things to make them different.

I am a person always with an open mind.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

You have to think outside the box.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

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.

What characteristics are most important in creative workers? One quality you need is inventiveness. You need to be able to take whatever product or service you are providing and figure out ways of making it better, faster, cheaper. The other quality is empathy and insight into what people might want, even though they don't even know their wants, probably because there's no product or service to test their wants.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

Design truly is a contact sport. It demands that we bring all of our senses to the task, and that we apply the very best of our thinking, our feeling and our doing to the challenge that we have at hand.

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.