Anna Silk Quotes

You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.

You need to take a little break sometimes. Then, hopefully, you get some more lead in your pencil, and you're raring to go again!

Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

It is important to take short breaks for the best use of your creative talents.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.

Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.

Sleeping is the height of genius

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.