Nella Last Quotes

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

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.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Think your own thoughts.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

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.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

Since when was genius found respectable?

Posing good questions is harder than it might seem... It's hard because asking good questions requires you to see past the easy answers and to focus instead on the difficult, the tricky, the mysterious, the awkward, and sometimes the painful. ... Great leaders don't have all the answers, but they know how to ask the right questions - questions that force others and themselves to move past old and tired answers, questions that open up possibilities that, before the question, went unseen.

The only stupidities that are not easily solved are those created by very intelligent men.

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

Ideas are things that happen at any time because you're constantly thinking and evaluating life as if it were an eternally unsolvable math problem, which it is.

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

I think sometimes a part requires more than one approach or thought.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.

Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.