Quotes About Lateral Thinking

#1. I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.

Barry Marshall

#2. the need to be right at every step is absolutely essential to logical thinking, but quite unnecessary in lateral thinking. It

Franz Badenhorst

#3. To promote "learning-by-being," we can encourage people to engage in unstructured and free-spirited approaches, promoting lateral thinking rather than vertical problem solving.

Matt Ratto

#4. Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

Edward De Bono

#5. I'm terrible at solving things. I'm really bad and haven't got any sort of lateral thinking capacity. I am your perfect audience for a mystery. I love that kind of stuff. I'm always on the edge of my seat.

Julia Sawalha

#6. Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

Salman Rushdie

#7. Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

Edward De Bono

#8. Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you ... "
... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible.
"Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?

Eoin Colfer

#9. Lateral thinking ... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

Edward De Bono

#10. Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

John Green

#11. The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

Robert Graves

#12. While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.

Chris Brogan

#13. Erase the victim mentality. Remember you are capable of achieving greatness. If only you'd believe in your abilities to overcome. You are victorious. Celebrate the victory.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#14. No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

Virat Kohli

#15. A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Gilles Deleuze

#16. Maybe it's because I grew up during the MTV generation, but to me a perfect song is one I can imagine a music video to, a song that can take you into a dream.

Dan Chaon

#17. Jane: Focus is important.
V: Only if you're a microscope.

J.R. Ward

#18. Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

Immanuel Kant

#19. God has always been in my heart and a part of my life and my familys lives. It is through Him that we draw our strength.

Michael Jackson

#20. I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

Andy Andrews

#21. I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

Ray Davies

#22. Sooner or later, there's always a Jaws: a mental hurdle we can't clear, a decision too dangerous to attack head on. In those situations, sideways is forward.

Steven Kotler