Bode Miller Quotes

Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

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

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

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

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.