Twyla Tharp Quotes

Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.

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.

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.

You can never discard too many bad ideas.

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?"

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

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

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

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

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.

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

Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

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.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.