Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

When you're bored, you get creative.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

We can invent only with memory.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.