James Hillman Quotes

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.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

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

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

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.

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

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

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

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

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

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

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

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

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