Michael J. Gelb Quotes

• By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Motivational, Track, Self Improvement

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• Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Life, Happiness, Exercise

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• Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Powerful, Creativity, Creative

  Michael J. Gelb (2009). “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, p.179, Dell

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• Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Innovation, Creation, Delivery

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• You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.

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  Skills, Asking, Problem

  Michael J. Gelb (2009). “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, p.100, Dell

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• Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Failure, Exercise, Champion

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• Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Confused, Creativity, Doors

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• Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Thinking, People, Mastery

  Michael J. Gelb (1996). “Lessons from the Art of Juggling: How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning, and Life”, Three Rivers Press

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• Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

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  Crazy, Ocean, Feet

  Michael J. Gelb (2014). “Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius”, p.90, Sounds True

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• Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

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  Brain, Genius, Limitless

  Michael J. Gelb (1996). “Lessons from the Art of Juggling: How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning, and Life”, Three Rivers Press

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• A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

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  Views, Champion, Energy

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• We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

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  People, Junk, Mediocrity

  Michael J. Gelb (2009). “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, p.43, Dell

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• The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.

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  Thinking, Creative, Historical

  Michael J. Gelb (2009). “Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.

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  Mind, Achieve, Embrace

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• How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Pain, Doe, Pleasure

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• A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Ideas, May, Spirit

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• Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Airplane, Self, Tunes

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