Jesse Itzler Quotes

Kids have some of the best ideas - bringing new eyes to old problems.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

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.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

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

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

Play exercises both your physical and creative muscles. It helps you move around, solve problems, challenge yourself, and think in new ways. Not to mention that it's just plain fun.

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

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.