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• People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Thinking, People, Creative

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• When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

  John Lasseter

  Thinking, Skills, Creative

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• Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.

  Sark

  Thinking, Creative, Outcomes

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• The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Atheist, Thinking, Creative

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• Companies that recognize the need to be creative about their businesses are going to pursue this creative thinking with us or without us. It's our collective responsibility, our collective future to make sure they choose to do it with us.

  Bob Schmetterer

  Business, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to be a man – and how much my sexuality would perpetually challenge those meanings—could be found in arguments posed by feminists. What can I say? I identified.

  Todd Haynes

  Men, Thinking, Feminist

  Todd Haynes (2007). “Far From Heaven, Safe, and Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Three Screenplays”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.

  Bob Schmetterer

  Business, Heart, Creativity

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• There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student in some technique or procedure, and requires little if any, original thought... No exercise, then, can always be done with reasonbable dispatch and with a miniumum of creative thinking. In contrast to an exercise, a problem, if it is a good one for its level, should require though on the part of the student.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Teaching, Math, Exercise

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• Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

  Theodore Levitt

  Simple, Thinking, Creative

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• Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Self Esteem, Sleep, Thinking

  Kay Redfield Jamison (1996). “Touched With Fire”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

  Peter Senge

  Team, Thinking, Ideas

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• Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.

  John Quincy Adams

  Thinking, Two, Differences

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• Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

  Paul Davies

  Moon, Thinking, People

  "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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• I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

  Anita Roddick

  Leadership, Believe, Thinking

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• I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

  Harper Lee

  Dream, Coffee, Home

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