Quotes About Divergent Thinking

#1. Grade A objectivity won't come from those who are closest to us. It will come from outsiders. That's where we'll find divergent thinking, unexpected questions, novel ideas, differences of opinion, and added expertise.

David Sturt

#2. I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.

R. YS Perez

#3. When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea ...

Adam Grant

#4. Divergent thinking is that one starts thinking from one point and expands from there to generate more ideas.

Pearl Zhu

#5. And yet this does not touch the kernel of the problem. Human advancement is not a mere question of almsgiving, but rather of sympathy and cooperation among classes who would scorn charity.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#6. Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population?" It sounds like she's smirking. "Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?

Veronica Roth

#7. I really like the idea of being utilitarian. My dream is to edit down my wardrobe and be very Japanese, where you have one rolling rack and it's like your four T-shirts, your five dresses, your two pairs of jeans.

Erin Wasson

#8. I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

Carl Rogers

#9. If I were a Catholic, I'd be asking what's going on here. I really would. "The pope also broke with his predecessors by suggesting that Catholic lawmakers are free to vote for same-sex marriage and civil unions."

Rush Limbaugh

#10. Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose ...

Neil Postman

#11. I decided to irritate him, on the premise that it couldn't make my situation any worse.

Jeff Somers

#12. The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Rebecca West

#13. I should have known, then, that he would gladly trade thousands of GD memories-lives-for control of the experiments. That he would trade them without even thinking of alternatives-without feeling that he needed to bother to save them.
They're damaged, after all.

Veronica Roth

#14. You know, the kind of person who gets this tattoo is probably the kind that should keep it very quiet," she says, looking at me from the corner of her eye. "Or else someone will start thinking they're Divergent.

Veronica Roth

#15. The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

Socrates

#16. New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

George Murray