Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Usually my 'a-ha' moments are when I'm not trying to think of how to solve a particular problem.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Imagination decides everything.

I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

I imagined there would be a way to crack the diffraction barrier. But of course I didn't know exactly how it would work, but I had a gut feeling that there must be something, and so I tried to think about it, to be creative.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

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.