... for
inspiration
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The best advice is not to focus too strongly on any aspect of
the problem. You should learn to think generally ... antithetical to this basic attitude of trust. They drive
away what they long for. ‘If winter comes, can spring be far
behind?’
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... analogy between a
Buddha’s smile and the front of a motorcycle?
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is
to think of it again.
Goethe
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Art of Creative ... books.’
The implication is that below the surface of familiarity there is
a wonderful unknown world to be explored.
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... outstanding success into their
own industry.
Widen Your Span of Relevance
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Art of Creative Thinking 1-134 :Creative Thinking ... some of
the mixture on to the top of a hot stove. The heat vulcanized it
at once. Goodyear immediately saw the solution to the
problem that had baf...
... wanted.’
One of the prime aims of education, it could be argued, is to
develop such an inquisitive mind. The whole art of teaching,’
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Art of Creative Thinking 1-134 :Creative ... ability to see
things and make detailed observations. For they are the mate-
rials for future creative thinking.
The Art of Creative...
... is that of the talker who alternately
absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Art of Creative Thinking ... your creative imagination?
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Reading to generate
ideas
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Art...
... into contact with their tentacles,
and are seized, devoured and digested. Think of me as the
jellyfish, and the captured victims become the plots, the
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Art of Creative ... out of chaos. Skill? Yes, because there is
an art in knowing when to stand back and let your Depth
Mind do its work.
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... honestly to be aware – these are the true
aims and duties of criticism.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch
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Art of Creative Thinking 1-134 :Creative ... obscurity and ambiguity for a long time, and
these are negative states within the kingdom of the positive.
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... glass
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moments of exaltation. ... over and you contemplate it, then there are
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... 1969,
comes the phrase ‘Think outside the box!’
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Art of Creative Thinking 1-134 :Creative Thinking 3/4/ 07 10: 37 Page ... completion.
Appendix A
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JOHN ADAIR
London and Philadelphia
How to be innovative and
develop great ideas
THE ART OF
CREATIVE
THINKING
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KEYPOINTS
... is that below the surface of familiarity there is
a wonderful unknown world to be explored.
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