Unimaginative Thinking Quotes

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

Hollywood's not a progressive place. Everyone likes to think that Hollywood is hip, but it's not hip at all.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.