Franz von Holzhausen Quotes

I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.

The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

Genius is intellect constructive.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

Stretch your mind and fly.

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Keys," she repeated, and slowly stepped back. "What do you mean, keys?" "Car keys. As in, give them up. Now." Shane had that look -- hard, and no bullshit. "We don't have time for your drama, Monica. Nobody does.

Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.