"Questions can stimulate ideas, innovation, and invention. New knowledge, theories, and inventions have frequently evolved from unusual questions –– questions that require persistent reflection, consideration of paradoxical possibilities, and synthesis across diverse disciplines. Many scientists and inventors tell of the question that "haunted" them, begging for resolution until the answer emerged and along with it a new idea, or invention."
–– Diana Whitney (b. 1948), American writer & Amanda Trosten-Bloom, American writer
Source: Diana Whitney & Amanda Trosten-Bloom. The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003; p. 59.
via Commonplace Book 2006, p. 57.
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