Paul Krugman Quotes

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

Novelty always sparks ideas.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.