Gertrude Stein Quotes

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

I know how to think outside of the box and be creative.

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.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.