Henry Bessemer Quotes

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

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

My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of its exhausted ideas.

If you rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.

I don't want to be married to any ideology, because life is a lot more fluid than that, and I think that we're trained and conditioned in this country to think in teams.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

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

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

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.

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

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

The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

There ain't no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something...All this talk about rules...When the deal goes down...we make 'em up as we go along.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.