Theodore Zeldin Quotes

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.