Jesse Schell Quotes

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

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

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

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

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I wouldn't suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I've definitely noticed a pattern of being 'creative.'

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.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn't until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone's head worked the same way.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

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

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

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.

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

Imagination comes of not having things.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.