Tibor Kalman Quotes

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

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

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.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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

We're always looking for candidates that have new approaches to problems.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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

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

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.

I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'

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

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

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