Arianna Huffington Quotes

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

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

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

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

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

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

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

If you look at the world today, there are as many solutions as there are problems. I think that is a big part of creativity. That's why I started Urban Zen. Because I wanted to dress and address people.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of people are questioning the future, and I can't help but think that's a positive thing. I'm not sure about the art world, but the design world may be able to offer some solutions. Design is about troubleshooting. As a designer, I ultimately feel like a gun for hire. Companies hire me because they've got a problem. That's kind of what it boils down to. And I think this is a moment in our history where we need different solutions.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

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

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem