Top 38 Gelb Quotes
#1. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, author Michael J. Gelb
Jon Acuff
#2. 'Rigoletto' has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked to Peter Gelb. I started thinking about what I could bring to this masterpiece, which has been seen all over the world for so many years.
Michael Mayer
#3. I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.
Lady Gaga
#4. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
Arnold Bennett
#5. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.
Michael J. Gelb
#6. 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.
Michael J. Gelb
#7. You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.
Michael J. Gelb
#8. 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.
Michael J. Gelb
#10. Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
Michael J. Gelb
#11. Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.
Liv Ullmann
#12. Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.
Michael J. Gelb
#13. Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
Michael J. Gelb
#14. Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.
Michael J. Gelb
#15. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
Mitch Albom
#16. Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.
Gianna Beretta Molla
#17. As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.
Michael J. Gelb
#18. I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.
Howe Gelb
#19. I like not thinking when I am working. I thrive on that feeling of attempting to move on total instinct and inner feelings ... that to me is "soul"; soul music. Almost everyone else uses a great deal of thought processes ... they are idea men.
Howe Gelb
#20. The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
Louis Kahn
#22. I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it
Douglas Adams
#24. 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.
Michael J. Gelb
#25. 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.
Michael J. Gelb
#26. He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.
Anne Carson
#27. His enticing hazel greens had me begging for him. I couldn't stand it anymore-what a temptation! I wanted to taste every bit of him.
Elena Carpenter
#28. By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
Michael J. Gelb
#30. life is a continuous exercise is creative problem solving
Michael J. Gelb
#31. 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.
Michael J. Gelb
#32. 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.
Michael J. Gelb
#33. Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.
Michael J. Gelb
#34. 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
#35. Recording is best used as a pretty good reason to hang with the family of friends globally scattered,
Howe Gelb
#36. The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all.
Nicky Gumbel
#37. We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and their); there's sounds like theirs; and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
Lynne Truss
#38. In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one.
Howe Gelb
