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.
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.
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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.
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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.'
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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.
If you never change your mind, why have one?
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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.
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.
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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