Scott Adams Quotes

Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'

I am interested in finding solutions to problems.

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

I'm a problem-solver.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.