Wayne Dyer Quotes

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

My gut is my No. 1 asset. I also like to draw from a lot of people, and I ask a lot of questions. I'll literally show my ideas to 500 different people and get their opinions, and, in the end, after digesting all their opinions, I just trust my gut.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less confidence that we'll be able to find a consensus about which ones are right without experiment.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

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

Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

I usually have two or three ideas floating around. When I have free time, the one I end up thinking most about is the one I end up pursuing.

I don't have to come up with the best idea. It is my job to make sure that it is always the best idea that wins.

It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.

While driving to work, I'll choose to think about a particular subject rather than just have random thought streams landing on one subject or another. For example, I might think about the structure of an opinion. Or I might think about the first sentence of an opinion, refining it.

Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying, pull a thread with great persistence 'til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think - that's what we pull out of this place.

Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.

You can never discard too many bad ideas.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas