Michael J. Gelb Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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#3. By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

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#4. A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

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#5. Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

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#8. 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.

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#9. life is a continuous exercise is creative problem solving

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#10. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

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#11. 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.

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#12. You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.

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#13. 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.

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#14. Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

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#15. Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

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#16. Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

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#17. Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

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#18. As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.

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