David Boas 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'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

We need innovation and creativity.

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.

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

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

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

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

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

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

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

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

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

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

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.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

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

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

We should have more invention.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.