Charles Best Quotes

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

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

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

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

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

As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

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

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

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

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

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

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change....These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.

People who have a new idea often just stop having an old idea.

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.

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.