Quotes by What If Often creativity comes from a very pragmatic kind of "well, what if we try this. How about this." You set some parameters and then work through the variations. It's hard to see something as a concept. It literally comes out of the hands on experiment. Grant David McCracken what-if creativity trying You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland? Greg Giraldo cop what-if feet 92 people are killed every single day in car fatalities. What if we filmed every one of them? No one would drive cars. Greg Gutfeld what-if car people I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur? Guy Kawasaki golfers what-if entrepreneur We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential? Heidi Julavits childhood what-if adults Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does four portraits, so it’s split into quadrants and there’s four heads, basically—portraits of people. We’ve actually often thought and freaked out, what if something happened to Charles Burns? Because he’s so identified with the cover of our magazine, I don’t know what we would do if anything happened to Charles Burns. Heidi Julavits what-if artist people What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow. Haruki Murakami what-if dark memories And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it! Henrik Ibsen ships what-if running What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin? Herge whole-life what-if whole We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today? Henry David Thoreau what-if bravery integrity What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? Haruki Murakami what-if important forgotten Quite often governments are one way and the people are another. You can't judge the many by the actions of a few. What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media. All these places I go, people say that America is good and I'm like, "Well, thank you, I'm glad you can see it." And you know - we are good, we've just got work to do. Henry Rollins what-if judging people What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus? Inga Muscio what-if years thinking What if reincarnation really happens, and Jesus were reincarnated, & you were a total d*ck to him? It could happen. You should probably treat everyone like they were Jesus reincarnated. Ingrid Weir reincarnation what-if jesus What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen! Isaac Mizrahi what-if idols would-be God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not? Isak Dinesen what-if saws world But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.” “And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” “Throw it away and punch him on the nose,” Ron suggested. J. K. Rowling what-if real people The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do. Isabel Allende what-if quality overcoming My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner. Jack Dee spleen what-if character What if you, too, were to greet every interaction in your life with the question 'What's the potential opportunity that this is?' Jack Canfield interaction what-if opportunity «4567891011121314»
