Thinking Outside Quotes

We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.

Thinking differently is my strength.

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

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don't see.

Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.