Occupation: Physician Birth: May 19, 1933
If you never change your mind, why have one?.
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be foreve….
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain..
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking..
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple..
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction..
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort..
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress..
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves….
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way..
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas..
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd..
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen..
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it..
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned..
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity..
The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I hav….
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive..
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see..
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so ob….