Tim Ferriss Quotes

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.

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

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

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

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.

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

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

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

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

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

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

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

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.