Boris Yeltsin Quotes

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

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

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

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

Thinking differently is my strength.

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

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.

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.

I always have a different way of looking at things.

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

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

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

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.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

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.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

We have to think big. We have to imagine big, and that's part of the problem. We're letting other people imagine and lead us down what paths they want to take us. Sometimes they're very limited in the way their ideas are constructed. We need to imagine much more broadly. That's the work of a writer, and more writers should look at it.