Stephen Covey Quotes

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

Creation begins with vision.

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

Every director has their own unique working style.

I love the creative process - brainstorming and coming up with campaigns.

Creating the future means having a global vision and an extreme focus on the approachability of what we're creating.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every sentence of his 800-page novel.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.