David Eli Lilienthal Quotes

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

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.

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

I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

Imagination comes of not having things.

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

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

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

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.

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

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions.

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

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.

I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out.

I just like having creative solutions to tricky situations.

I think sometimes a part requires more than one approach or thought.

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.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.