Raymond E. Feist Quotes

I find it fascinating that you can look at the same problem from different perspectives and approach it using different methods.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

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

Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"

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.

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

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.

Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.

Thinking differently is my strength.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

I know how to think outside of the box and be creative.

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.