George Santayana Quotes

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

Small ideas that turn into big ideas - that really inspires me.

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

An idea is a feat of association.

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.

I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.