Carine Roitfeld Quotes

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.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

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

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

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

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.

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.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

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.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

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

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

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.