Terry Pratchett Quotes

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.

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

I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

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

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

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

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

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

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

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

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.