Orson Scott Card Quotes

You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

We're looking for people who are working on things that seem out of reach, uncomfortably difficult.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought

We are exploring creative models to pursue innovation outside the confines of our normal process, taking calculated risks and learning from them.

I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.

We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.

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.

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

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

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

I think enjoying each other in a creative way is usually a result of when you're doing something that might be problematic - might be a little difficult to uncover. I've done it once in a stage production; we came in for two days and, just as an experiment, the director had us reading each other's roles. You hear another voice interpreting a line that maybe you were having trouble with. It can be very helpful. But we weren't really in the kind of situation where that was necessary.

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

Alejandro Amenábar has a unique way of approaching movies and thinking about something which was new to me. It was different. I have a lot of respect for him so I just took a gamble.

If you're going to be an entrepreneur... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.