The great and invigorating influences in life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
Sage advice for
Challenge,
Change,
Creativity,
Thinking
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything ... both ways save us from thinking.
Sage advice for
Thinking
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Sage advice for
Thinking
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory!
Sage advice for
Thinking
The conventional view saves us from the painful job of thinking.
Sage advice for
Corporate Entrepreneurship,
Creativity,
Innovation,
Knowledge,
Management,
Thinking,
Wisdom
Humor is the most significant activity of the human brain.
Sage advice for
Creativity,
Humor,
Thinking
Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.
People are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts ... wisdom lies in their simplification.
You've got two sides to your brain, use them ... but not at the same time!
Your right brain is the creative side ... your left brain is the analytical side. Both are important functions ... but if you try to create and analyze at the same time, you'll drive yourself crazy! Same for meetings ... decide whether you're having a creative meeting to generate ideas, or an analytical meeting to make decisions. Don't try to do both in the same meeting!
Sage advice for
Creativity,
Ideas,
Meetings,
Thinking
Failures are divided into two classes ... those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.