Edward de Bono Quotes

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.

You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

Inspiration is finding something that excites you.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

I always want to remain inspired.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

I'm always being inspired .