Michael J. Gelb quotes

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
- Michael J. Gelb

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

You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.
- Michael J. Gelb

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

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential.
- Michael J. Gelb

You can change your life by changing the way you think about yourself and your potential.
- Michael J. Gelb

Intuition is the art of listening, with an inner ear, to the rhythms and melodies of your own “body music.” T.
- Michael J. Gelb

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.
- Michael J. Gelb

True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It’s an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there’s something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth
- Michael J. Gelb

The great physician, humanitarian and Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer explained, “The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live.
- Michael J. Gelb

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Michael J. Gelb

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
- Michael J. Gelb

Da Vinci gave birth to a tradition that resulted in the modern discipline of “brainstorming.” Prior to Da Vinci the concept of “creative thinking” as an intellectual discipline didn’t exist.
- Michael J. Gelb

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Michael J. Gelb

Releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison in which you’re both the inmate and the jailer.
- Michael J. Gelb

He observed poetically that a mother goldfinch, seeing her children caged, feeds them a bit of a poisonous plant,noting, "Better death than to be without freedom.
- Michael J. Gelb