Michael J. Gelb Quotes

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• Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
• Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.
• By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
• A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.
• Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.
• As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.
• 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.
• 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…
• You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.
• 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…

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