Tim Cook Quotes

When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

The different variables involved in anything creative, really, are massive. When it comes together, it just clicks, I suppose.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

I think the world is changing and all that matters is that I'm creating things.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

True understanding is the spur of genius

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great "art idea."

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

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation further with myself, some other individual pops up, like David McKenzie did, with this idea of making this film [Teknolust], and provides exactly the leap to the next adventure.

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm drawn to certain things. I can sometimes feel it when I'm moving away from something that I was once interested in - an idea or an exploration of particular relationships. I go, 'Well, I think I've done that and I don't want to do it again.'

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.