Lateral Thinking Quotes - Page 2

• If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Infinite, Exploration

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• To ask the hard question is simple.

  W. H. Auden

  Optimistic, Simple, Brainstorming

  Poems (1933) no. 27

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• The obvious is always least understood.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Thinking, History, Understanding

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• Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Eye, Intelligent

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

  Bill Gates

  Imagination, Team Building, Teammate

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• Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

  Winston Churchill

  Imperfect World, Goal, Brainstorming

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Imagination, Perception, Agents

  Biographia Literaria ch. 13 (1817)

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• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Clever, Creativity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Norah Maier, Edward De Bono (1982). “Teaching the gifted, challenging the average”, Univ of Toronto

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

  Tom Stoppard

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Adventure

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• Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you..." ... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. "Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Thinking, Hollies

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• We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Believe, Order, Brainstorming

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• God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

  John Mason Brown

  Curiosity, Brainstorming, Propulsion

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• We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Thinking, Ideas, Experience

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• Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

  Ned Rorem

  Inspirational, Memories, Brainstorming

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

  Barbara Walters

  Women, Blunt, Brainstorming

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• The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

  Ed Koch

  Art, History, Killing

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• In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Taken, Men

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

  Robert M. Hayes

  Taken, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Robert M. Hayes (1994). “How I Made Millions with Just a Few Simple Ideas!”, Garrett Pub

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• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Musical, Comedy, Brainstorming

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• How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

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• Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries we are competing for - the industries of the future - are all based on brainpower.

  Lester Thurow

  Thinking, May, Facts

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