Quotes on Creative Ideas

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.

Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.