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.
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
Flexibility is a requirement for survival.
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
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.