Mary Landrieu Quotes

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.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

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

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I like people who can see what other people can't yet imagine.

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 would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

There's nothing like having some healthy competition. We really strive to think outside the box by taking the standard approach the then twisting it a little, all the while trying something new.

My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn't until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone's head worked the same way.

Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas?

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

We have a mantra at the Big Machine Label Group: Start with crazy and work backward.

Kids have some of the best ideas - bringing new eyes to old problems.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.