Dan Brown Quotes

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Thinking differently is my strength.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

You can never discard too many bad ideas.

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year

Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

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

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.