Steve Jobs Quotes

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show - that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep 'reptilian brain.'

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

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

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

You can't rush inspiration.

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

I have a very creative mind, and I'm always looking for new stuff and new things.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.