imaginative problem-solving Quotes

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

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

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

There is a creative solution to every problem. Every possibility holds the promise of abundance.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise