Creative Problem Solving Quotes:

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

- Michael J. Gelb

topic: Happiness, Exercise, Creative, Creative Problem Solving

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Business, Educational, Solved Problems, Inspiring Management

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Real, Creativity, Imagination, Innovative Leadership, Power Of Imagination

Creativity can solve almost any problem,

- George Lois

source: George Lois (2008). “George Lois on His Creation of the Big Idea”, Editions Assouline

topic: Creativity, Problem, Solve, Inspire Creativity, Copywriting

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

- Charles R. Swindoll

source: Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Life Opportunity, Impossible Situations

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

- Richard Branson

topic: Thinking, Keys, Creative, Critical Thinking, Creative Problem Solving

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

- Hugh Miller

topic: Encouraging, Opportunity, Thorns, Support And Encouragement, Hitting Bottom

Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.

- Paul A. Kaufman

topic: Skills, Creative, Listening, Creative Problem Solving, Receptive

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Math, Thinking, Skills, Solved Problems, Creative Imagination

Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

- Nita Leland

topic: Voice, Creative, Attention, Creative Problem Solving

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Pushing On, Solved Problems

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

- Duke Ellington

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Solved Problems, Jazz Musician

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

- John Foster Dulles

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Success Is Measured, Success Is Not Measured

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

source: Theodore Isaac Rubin (1983). “One to one: understanding personal relationships”, Viking Pr

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Artist, Large Family, Inspirational Adversity

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

- Robert Greenberg

topic: Creative, Design, Stories, Creative Problem Solving

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Making Tough Decisions, Solved Problems

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Moving On, Moving Forward, Focus, Dwell On The Past, Just Keep Moving

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Real, Science, Skills, Solved Problems, Creative Problem Solving

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Solved Problems, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Life, Morning, Sleep, Solved Problems, Morning After

When someone comes to you to talk about a problem, if you move the conversation on to a discussion of potential solutions, you fuel their creative problem solving abilities on average by 20% - not to mention you make them feel better! You make them smarter and more empowered to tackle challenges.

- Michelle Gielan

topic: Moving, Feel Better, Average, Creative Problem Solving

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Solved Problems, Mystery Of God

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

- Peter Salovey

topic: Leadership, People, Creative, Creative Problem Solving

Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

- Stephen LaBerge

topic: Dream, Self Confidence, Creative, Lucid Dreaming, Lucidity