David Carradine Quotes

Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

Kids have some of the best ideas - bringing new eyes to old problems.

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.

Solutions are not the answer.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.