Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Flexibility is a requirement for survival.
It’s important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.
When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.
There is a close relationship between the “ha-ha” of humor and the “aha!” of discovery.
It’s difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you’re always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.
Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.
We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else’s brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of ‘guess what’s in the teacher’s head?’ What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.
Look for the second right answer.
If you don’t execute your ideas, they die.
The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true.
Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.
Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.
Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer ‘yes’ to any one of these questions, that’s your warning to Kick that attitude!
Here’s my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what’s funny about what you’re doing.
New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.
Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.
Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers – all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there’s only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
That’s because people find what they’re looking for. If we look for beauty, we’ll find beauty. If we look for conspiracies, we’ll find conspiracies. It’s all a matter of setting our mental channel.