Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

I see myself as a problem solver, creating solutions.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

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

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

We must use time creatively.

In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.

It's always good to have a limit because it forces you to think about all the ways to get what you want.

I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'

I like to consider myself a problem solver. I don't like to spend a lot of time talking about the problem, stressing out or being dramatic about it. I like to try and figure out how I can fix it.

Whether that's in communications or marketing or strategy, you need people to come in with a fresh perspective.

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

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

We value seriousness and willingness to solve problems.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

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.

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.

Design truly is a contact sport. It demands that we bring all of our senses to the task, and that we apply the very best of our thinking, our feeling and our doing to the challenge that we have at hand.

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 would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Cynics criticize and winners analyze.