James Hillman Quotes

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

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

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?

I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

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

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

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

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

In any industry, the people with the freshest ideas usually come from outside.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

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

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

Creativity is what transforms.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

We need innovation and creativity.

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.

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

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

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