Maria Konnikova Quotes

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

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

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

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

The power of imagination is infinite.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

I'm interested in creating new work.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

I'm always creative.