Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
If you never change your mind, why have one?
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.
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