Creative Solution Quotes

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.

I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity and wildness. But they have antennae in their heads. When they walk down the street anywhere in the world, they have their antennae out, evaluating how what they see can relate back to what they are doing. It might be packaging, a word, a poem, or even something in a completely different business.

Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.

I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents back at my apartment, I was halfway through wrapping them, and I realized, 'Damn, I used the wrong wrapping paper.' The paper I used said, 'Happy Birthday.' I didn't want to waste it, so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.

Innovation is the answer to most problems including energy.

When I first came into New York City, what I did was, I didn't have very much money, and I couldn't afford pictures or a resume, so what I used to do is I would tear off the back of a matchbook, and I'd write my name and telephone number on the back of the matchbook.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.

Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.

I use a smoke alarm as a timer.

Every single project deserves a different approach.

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

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

Whatever Kanye tells me, I just try to put it in my little machine and make the perfect solution for it. That's always our collab formula, and that's just how 'Gorgeous' came about.