Margaret Fuller Quotes

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

The people that impress me are Bob Dylan. The ones who keep working, year in and year out, and keep coming up with stuff.

Tim Olyphant is a machine. He never stops thinking and being creative.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.

Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

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

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

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."