D.1 Problem Recognition and Questions
Understanding the Creative Process From Quotations From Creative Individuals
Recognizing a problem is a way of either personally or publicly announcing that you have a problem. Asking questions is the initial way of investigating the problem. There is a measure of courage at this juncture since one is investing reputation and time to the problem. James Baldwin wrote: “Recognizing a problem doesn’t always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.” Moving through the steps of Problem Observation to Problem recognition to Problem definition is the meat, is the work of the creative process. In a new and useful creation there is probably some underlying problem that has been solved.
TYPE QUOTATIONS
Recognizing a problem doesn’t always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.
-James Baldwin
Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking?
Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
always the beautiful answer who ask a more beautiful question
-e. e. cummings
SELECTED QUOTATIONS
Recognizing a problem doesn’t always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.
-James Baldwin
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
-Zig Ziglar
The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better that I could.
-Leo Szilard
Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking?
-Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
always the beautiful answer who ask a more beautiful question
-e. e. cummings
Getzels pointed out that creativity is not just solving problems of the kind that already exist or that continually arise in human life. Creative individuals often actively search out and discover problems to solve that no one else has perceived.
Jacob Getzels
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
-Helen Keller
No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.
-Grace Hopper
What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
- Jonas Salk
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plants and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engage my thought throughout my life.
Leonardo Da Vinci
If no problem is recognized, there is no recognition of the need for improvement.
-Masaaki Imai
Science is the topography of ignorance.
-Oliver Wendel Holmes
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-Pablo Picasso
In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question..
-Richard Saul Wurman
Most people never ask.
-Steve Jobs
No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.
-Grace Hopper
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
-Sir Winston Churchill
SELECTED POSTERS (A - G)
The above posters are (A - G) from my poster collection. I will be publishing more posters later. The following table Displays the position of these posters in my classification of Phases and Topics of the Creative Process. My posts will follow the order of the following table. This post is D.1 on the Importance of Creativity. It is A point 1 because I have many more posters on this topic and anticipate posting more as D.2 etc.
List of the Phases and Topics correlated to the Steps in the Scientific Method. These phases and topics have been derived from study of quotations from many creative individual from many fields of endeavor.
My goal is to publish quote poster collections on A through W as individual posts, eventually. Currently my quote collection numbers over 4,000 and my poster collection includes nearly 1,400 different individuals. I have created over 50 posters for each Phase and Topic listed in the above table. Advise and wisdom from as many individuals as possible is my goal. These quotes and the posters have driven the classification above. - Apply for a free subscription. Thanks Walt.
The next phase of the process is labeled E.1 Problem Definition, Focusing, and Simplicity.
Walter H Pierce