Roger Martin Quotes

The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

The fundamental purpose of design thinking is to produce something that does not now exist. And so it is with integrative thinking - in the face of conflicting models, it seeks to generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a model that contains elements of each but is superior to both. So the goals are aligned completely.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

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

We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.

The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

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.

The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.

It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

The productiveness of any meeting depends on the level of thought given to the agenda in advance, and you should never leave a meeting without writing a follow-up list with each item assigned to one person. And go outside. All the big ideas are on the outside. You'll never have a creative idea at your desk.

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

If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.

I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, "Well, there is one other idea ["National Anthem"]."