Shimon Peres Quotes

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

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

I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

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.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

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

Frustration is fuel that can lead to the development of an innovative and useful idea.

I know how to think outside of the box and be creative.

I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like bringing disparate kinds of creative people together to create some great work, even to share points of view on a new direction.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

If one door is closed, break a window anyway.

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

Kids have some of the best ideas - bringing new eyes to old problems.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

You have to think outside the box.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.