Daniel H. Pink Quotes

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.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

Imagination decides everything.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.

Possibility-thinking is the long sought-after fountain of youth.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

Think inside the work - outside the work

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

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.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.