A Quote by Michael J. Gelb

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.

Michael J. Gelb

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Michael J. Gelb
American - Author
Born: 1952

The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.

David Ogilvy

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

Josh McDowell

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

Steve Jobs

We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for.

John Dewey

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

Keith Urban

The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.

Bill Maher

I'm not convinced that creative people have mentors because that's what makes them different; they just do their own thing. If anyone had tried to tell me how to go about something, I'd have run a mile. But I have certainly had a few influences in my life.

Vic Reeves

The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of seeing. As Einstein put it, 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.'

David Brooks

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

Fritz Machlup

Why hire these geniuses if they're forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators.

Shawn Levy

If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.

Indra Nooyi

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

Jonathan Lethem

I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.

Lorde

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

Sivananda

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

Oscar Wilde

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

Lukas Foss

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