Michael Nesmith Quotes

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

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.

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

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

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

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

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.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice.

It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.

There are a lot of men who like women with a brain.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

Everything has been thought of before... the real problem is to think of it again.