William McDonough Quotes

A Problem Is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

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.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

When I'm creatively solving problems, I'm in my sweet spot, and nothing can take me out of that joyful present.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.