Twyla Tharp Quotes

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.

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

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.

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

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

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

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.

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

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"

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

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

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.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.