Tim Hurson Quotes

Ideas are mutable. They are always capable of growing. Each time we look at them, we can see something new. We just need to give ourselves permission to do so.

But as important as it is to see what's going on, it's unlikely that merely understanding the situation will do much to improve it. If you're interested in change, you need to develop a sense of possibility.

No matter how dysfunctional the present, no matter how sensible the reasons for change, most people and organizations would rather wring out the old than ring in the new.

One of the major barriers to productive thinking is the almost compulsive drive in most business organizations to be right.

Sometimes it's just not practical to go through the effort of creating a new solution when an existing solution will do the job almost as well.

The only dumb idea is, quite literally, the one that is unspoken.

As in any discipline, to become good you need first to learn the rules. To become great, you need to break them.

Giving ourselves permission to imagine allows us to access a huge resource of cognitive capacity that we often ignore.

We think the more detailed and exhaustive our plans, the more likely the future will actually mirror our vision. But it rarely even comes close.

In my experience one of the most common causes for programs, products, and change initiatives that don't work is that the wrong question has been asked.

If things weren't messy, or getting messy, there would be no discontent, and you wouldn't need productive thinking in the first place.

Even though you may have started out saying you wanted imaginative, novel ideas, the tendency to drift back into the conventional is powerful.

Often the true causes of our discomfort are so integral to our environment that we fail to recognize them.

Unless a potential future incorporates a powerful emotional pull, it will have great difficulty overcoming the gravitational pull of the past.

As soon as you establish concrete intention, you begin to notice all kinds of things in your world that relate to that intention. Ideas and opportunities seem to appear from nowhere, almost as though by magic.