Floyd Flake Quotes

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

I guess I still have this motto: 'What else can I get away with?' And unpredictability in film - that's the hardest thing there is.

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.