Jed S. Rakoff Quotes

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

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

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

We can always find creative ways to do things.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

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

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

Without theory we can only copy.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

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

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.