Merrie Spaeth Quotes

The genius is making a way out of no way.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

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

The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

If you rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.

I always look at 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. 'Why don't we just change it to coconuts?' That's part of my process.

The core hacker premise that 'code wins arguments' is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping.

My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn't until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone's head worked the same way.

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

Everything has been thought of before... the real problem is to think of it again.

There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

A 'problem' is nothing more than a gorgeous opportunity to discover an even better solution.

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .