15 Quotes by Warren Berger

Fear is the enemy of curiosity.

A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something – and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged – it is barely tolerated.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air, and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

As you make those daily choices about what to spend your time on and which possibilities to pursue, the author and consultant John Hagel suggests you ask yourself13 this question: When I look back in five years, which of these options will make the better story? As Hagel points out, “No one ever regrets taking the path that leads to a better story.

It’s easier to act your way33 into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.

Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” After.

Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit – by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind’s eye and giving it shape and life.

If we’re born to inquire, then why must it be taught?