Alice Weaver Flaherty Quotes

Because of all the various people who've come in and out and brought along ideas, I've been on a learning curve throughout all these years. Of course, everyone that's been involved has influenced me as well. And I'm grateful for that.

I get influence from everybody and everything.

For me, what makes a dope concept is it's a fresh idea, something that I've never heard before.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

The productiveness of any meeting depends on the level of thought given to the agenda in advance, and you should never leave a meeting without writing a follow-up list with each item assigned to one person. And go outside. All the big ideas are on the outside. You'll never have a creative idea at your desk.

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.

If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.

Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.