Alexandre Dumas Quotes

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.

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

I've always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

We need to be able to answer not yesterday's challenges but to tomorrow's challenges.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

There is a creative solution to every problem. Every possibility holds the promise of abundance.

Thinking is the highest form of leverage.

The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases of creativity - is when you're not consciously thinking of a problem, and you're letting it marinate. So this is why you hear time and again, people saying they had that "Eureka" moment in the bath, like Archimedes, or in the shower, or while going for a walk or in a coffeehouse.

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

Two heads are definitely better than one and by sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

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

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.