Andre Geim Quotes

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

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 would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

I have a strong belief in creativity in humans. It's our biggest strength.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

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

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.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

With my intellect, I'm somebody who can think fast, think on my feet and can think under pressure.

I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.