Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Michael J. Gelb

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Michael J. Gelb.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Michael J. Gelb

Michael J. Gelb is an American non-fiction author, executive coach and management consultant. He is a senior fellow at the Center for Humanistic Management and member of the advisory board for Leading People and Organizations at the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business. He is also a Batten Institute Research Fellow at the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. — © Michael J. Gelb
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.
How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.
You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.
As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.
Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.
By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.
Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.
Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection. — © Michael J. Gelb
Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.
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