Michael Michalko Quotes
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

-Wayne W. Dyer
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Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are usel . . . Read more

-Michael Michalko
To increase your self-affirmation, get in the habit of remembering your successes, your good qualities and characteristics, and forgetting your failures.

-Michael Michalko
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Creators are joyful and positive. Creators look at “what is” and “what can be” instead of “what is not.” Instead of excluding possibilities, creators include all possibilities, both real and imagined. They choose to interpret their own world and do not rely upon the interp . . . Read more

-Michael Michalko
The CEO of a major publishing house was concerned about the lack of creativity among his editorial and marketing staffs. He hired a group of high-priced psychologists to find out what differentiated the creative employees from the others. After studying the staff for one year, the psy . . . Read more

-Michael Michalko
handles. One handle represents the nature of your business today, the other represents

-Michael Michalko
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A popular children’s puzzle shows six fishermen whose lines are tangled together to form a sort of maze. One of the lines has caught a fish; the problem is to find which fisherman it belongs to. You are supposed to do this by following each line through the maze, which may take up t . . . Read more

-Michael Michalko
Instead of presenting a catalog of all known creative techniques and abandoning you to puzzle out which ones actually work, I started with the ideas (fish) and worked backwards to each creator (fisherman). Then I identified the technique that caught the idea.

-Michael Michalko
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